Four arrested with stolen cars, arms

Detective police arrested four members allegedly of a car-lifting gang along with arms and two stolen cars from the city yesterday.
Nur Alam alias Habu, 22, and Mohammad Abu Siddique, 25, were arrested from a house in Kalabagan while Mohammad Azhar, 45, and Alamgir, 32, were arrested from Ramna area.
Police recovered 20 rounds of bullets, three revolvers, three machetes and two walky-talkies from their possession.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees admitted to have been involved in mugging and lifting cars for the past few years, said Senior Assistant Commissioner Mohammad Mokhlesur Rahman of Detective Branch (DB) of police.
He said the gang lifted a private car after hacking its driver at Kalabagan on October 14 last year. The same gang snatched another car this January from a CNG refilling station in Tejgaon using the previously stolen car, he added.
Owners of both the cars filed cases in these connections.
DB police yesterday raided the garage of an apartment in section-10 of Mirpur and recovered both the cars and arrested Habu and Siddique from the spot along with two revolvers and 15 bullets, he said.
Later, the gang's other members were arrested with rest of the arms, he told the reporters.
He said one Nazrul Islam leads the gang. The gang lifted cars at gunpoint or by hacking the driver and the stolen cars were later used for mugging valuables from city dwellers, he added.