The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Detective Branch (DB) of Police last night arrested four suspects from different parts of the city for their alleged involvement in snatching Tk 46 lakh from an assistant manager of ACI on September 14.

The arrested people were identified as Piyar Ali Khan, Khokan Miah, Hazrat Ali and Mohammad Sekul alias Elias.

DB sources said acting on a tip-off they arrested Piyar Ali Khan from Rampura area in the city.

According to his confessional statement, the plainclothes police later arrested three of his accomplices from the city's Tejgaon and Mohammadpur areas.

The arrested people told reporters that Ali, driver of ACI company, had earlier informed Khokan that the company officials would go to the bank to deposit a huge amount of money.

Later Khokan conveyed the message to others and finally they made their plan.

According to their plan, some 10 to 11 snatchers of the group took positions on Tejgaon-Gulshan link road en route to Standard Chartered Bank of Gulshan Branch where the officials were supposed to go for depositing some Tk 52 lakh.

When the microbus reached near Aarong on Tejgaon-Gulshan Link Road, five of the muggers riding on two motorcycles intercepted the microbus.

As the assistant manager alighted from the microbus without understanding anything, the muggers smashed the windowpanes of the vehicle and shot him. The gang snatched two cartons containing the money and fled the scene immediately.

Several bundles of about Tk 6 lakh fell from one of the cartons as they sped up after an on-duty police constable tried to resist the muggers hitting them with a stick.

DB sources said they managed to detect other associates who were involved in the mugging.

"The drive to arrest them is going on and we hope they will be arrested soon," a DB official said.