16 including police impersonators held
Police have arrested 16 people on charges of committing different crimes, including impersonating detectives, in raids across the capital in the last two days.
Police arrested three impersonators in Shanir Akhra, seven members of a fraud gang in Pallabi, five robbers in Kalyanpur and a drug peddler in Jatrabari.
The impersonators were arrested and from them a car, a walkie-talkie and a pair of handcuffs were recovered on Wednesday, Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of Wari division police, said at a press briefing at the media centre of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. "The gang, pretending to be detectives, used to pick up people who just withdrew money from a bank or collected it from someone, and take their money before releasing them somewhere," he said.
The arrestees are Hafizur Rahman, Monir Hossain, Pikul Sheikh.
Another team of police arrested members of a fraud gang with two toy pistols and three knives on Wednesday night, said Kaiyumuzzaman Khan, deputy commissioner of Mirpur division police, during another briefing at the same venue.
The detainees are -- Liyakat Ali, Kamrul, Shohidul Islam, Najmul Islam Didar, Ruhul Amin Ripon, Obidur Rahman Batu and Meherunnisa Keya.
Kaiyumuzzaman said the female members, mostly college and university students, used to start relationships with targets through Facebook or over the phone.
Afterwards, the members would ask the targets to meet them in a flat where the gang would take away their valuables, he said.
The police official said they even blackmailed the targets after forcing them to take photos with the females which were sexual in nature.
Meanwhile, Mirpur police arrested five members of an inter-district robbery gang and recovered a pickup van and three knives from them in Kalyanpur. In Jatrabari, a drug trader was arrested and 125kg of cannabis and bottles of Phensedyl were seized.
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