A Dhaka court has sent five people, including two police constables, to jail in a case filed over snatching of Tk 20 lakh from inside a bank in Paltan area of the capital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam passed the order after police produced the accused before the court after the end of their two-day remand in the case and pleaded to keep them behind bars till the end of probe.
The five accused are- Demra Police Lines constables -- Mahabub Ali and Asif Iqbal, their cohorts Shahajahan, Hridoy and Russel.
Meanwhile, on September 22, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehera Mahbub placed the accused on two-day remand each in the case.
According to the case documents, a staff of a Paltan-based office went to deposit Tk 20 lakh to IFIC Bank Paltan Branch around 2 pm on Thursday. The two policemen went inside the bank and grabbed the man, saying that they had a warrant against him. They dragged him outside and made him to sit on motorbike with them.
The two policemen dropped him in front of Mugda Medical College Hospital and left the place. The victim quickly informed his office and took help from the police.
After analyzing the CCTV footage found from the cameras installed inside and outside the bank, police identified Hridoy, who revealed the identities of other accused.
Police later arrested the two constables and recovered Tk 10 lakh from them. Later, police arrested Shahajahan and Russel from Basabo area and recovered the remaining money from them.
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