Two arrested for robbing people after offering lifts

An organised gang of criminals were robbing people in Rajshahi, Naogaon and Bogra, sometimes killing them, after offering lifts in trucks at night, says a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) investigation.
Rab officials, in a press conference at Rab-5 headquarters yesterday, said Mohammad Rasel, 20, son of Aju Majhi of Noakhali, and Kazi Riadunnabi, 20, of Naogaon, were arrested in this connection recently.
The duo, shown accused in the murder case of one Nitai Chandra Mohonto, a vendor of Naogaon, confessed that they committed the murder on December 6.
On the fateful night, Nitai and another unknown man took a lift from the gang from Shantahar Railway Station while returning to Naogaon from Dinajpur. On the way, the gang robbed the unknown man and left him on a road.
But when Nitai resisted, the gang tied him up, robbed him and threw him under the wheels of the truck. Later, Nitai's family found the body at Durgapur Chairman Mor on Rajshahi-Naogaon road, said Rab officials.