2 cops arrested for mugging
A sub-inspector and a constable of Sitakunda Model Police Station were arrested on charges of robbing a driver of Tk 2.8 lakh on Thursday night.
SI Saiful Alam and constable Md Saiful Islam were suspended and a two-member probe committee was formed to investigate the charges after Abu Jafar, the driver, filed a case against them and three police informants on Thursday.
Police said Jafar, 45, went to Sitakunda from Gazipur with the money to buy a pickup on December 20.
But he failed to buy the vehicle and was waiting at the bus station in Sitakunda in the evening for a bus to Gazipur when three police informants confronted him, saying that he was a yaba peddler, according to the case statement.
A little later, the two accused policemen appeared on the scene and introduced themselves as detectives. They then picked up Jafar, saying he had yaba pills in his rectum, police and locals told reporters.
The policemen did an X-ray of Jafar and found nothing, but they took away Tk 2.8 lakh from his possession and boarded him on a bus to Dhaka.
They also threatened him not to tell anyone about what had happened.
SM Rashidul Haque, superintendent of police in Chattogram, told The Daily Star that police were trying to recover the money and looking for the three other accused.
"The probe committee was asked to submit its findings in seven work days," he added.
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