Tk 6 lakh electric cables seized

Detective Branch (DB) of police seized a huge quantity of fake electric cables worth about Tk 6 lakh from two unauthorised factories at Shyampur in the city and arrested four people yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of plainclothes policemen raided the house of Hashmat Ullah at Battola in East Shyampur at about 2:30am and arrested Aynal Hossain, 28, Mehedi Hasan, 25, Shahidul Islam, 25, and Mohammad Sohel alias Sony, 20, from two rooms of the house -- one used to manufacture fake BRB cables and another Eastern cables.
Meanwhile, DB police also arrested nine members of a gang of muggers who used to target people withdrawing money from banks.
Acting on a tip-off, the police arrested gang leader Abdur Rob alias Aangul Kata Roba, 50, Abbas, 42, Rubel, 22, Rafiqul, 37, and Zakir, 32, in front of Pir Yemini Market in the city at about 10:00am.