Dhaka, Aug 25 – A mobile court in a drive, arrested 17 members of a teenage gang from Dhaka’s Rayer Bazar area.
The mobile court, led by Executive Magistrate Mohammad Sarwar Alam, sent 16 gang members to one-year imprisonment to Tongi Kishore Unnayan Kendra (juvenile correction centre) they are between 14 and 17 years’ old while a 25-year-old person was sent to jail. The magistrate sent teenage gang members to one-year imprisonment for consuming drugs, mugging and clash.
Sarwar Alam told the media that RAB arrested them during a 24-hour drive in Dhaka’s Rayerbazar area starting from 11:30am Saturday.
“They are members of the teen group locally known as Star Bond Group. All of them are drug addict and are involved in mugging and snatching,” Sarwar said.
“They were mostly being used for political purposes,” he said, adding that a few members of the gang are still on the run.
“There has a long-standing conflict between Star Bond and another local gang Molla Rabbi Group, Last year, Molla Rabbi gang members killed a member of the Star Bond Group and Friday was his death anniversary,” the executive magistrate said.
Star Bond Group arranged a doa Mahfil and uploaded a photo of the programme on Facebook. But the Molla Rabbi Group people gave smile emoji under the photo, which agitated their rivals. The Star Bond gang decided to beat up the members of Molla Rabbi Group. But on way they attacked RAB personnel when they way laid the gang members and interrogated.
Yesterday, the mobile court conducted the drive to arrest the members of the teen groups who attacked the Rab men.
“RAB also seizes local weapons and 90 pieces of yaba from their possession,” Sarwar added. – Staff Reporter
