Plainclothes police in a drive arrested eight alleged members of an inter-district robber gang at Daulatdia in Goalanda upazila early Monday.
The arrestees, identified as Malat, 45, Monekka, 40, Ershad, 30, Shamim, 28, Naim, 25, Alamin, 24, Sumon, 23, and Sujan, 22, hail from Iman Kha Para and Hossain Mondal Para in the upazila.
Officer-in-charge of Goalanda Police Station Abul Bashar said they had secret information that a robber’s gang was preparing to commit robbery at a garden near KKS Child Government Primary School at about 1:00am.
A team of police led by OC Abul Bashar conducted a drive in the area
and arrested the eight robbers after a hot chase, said the OC.
The police team also recovered six home made weapons, including a
Chinese axe and one machete, from the spot.
A case was filed in this connection.
The arrested were accused in several robbery cases filed with
different police stations, including Goalanda.
-UNB
