Highway Robbery: Seven held for stealing garment worth Tk 5cr
Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested seven members of a highway-theft gang and recovered exportable garments worth Tk 5 crore from Langalbandh area in Narayanganj.
The elite force arrested them while they were stealing garment products from a covered van parked at a sawmill depot near Dhaka-Chattogram highway.
The arrestees are Ripon alias Chhoto Ripon, 43, leader of the gang; his key associate Billal Hossain, 36; Manjur Hossain Jiku, 38, owner of the sawmill depot; Nayeem Islam, 27; covered van driver Md Akash, 26, and helper Md Sumon, 30; and Farid, 38, a garment packaging worker.
A total of 26,995 pieces of garment were sent to Chattogram from a Gazipur factory for shipment in the covered van, Lt Col Abdur Rahman, commanding officer of Rab-4, told a press briefing yesterday.
Law enforcers seized the van, he added.
The Rab official said instead of taking the covered van directly to Chattogram, the driver and helper, on advice of the gang leader, parked the vehicle at the sawmill depot.
Then the gang broke the vehicle's bolt and started stealing the products.
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