No arrest has been made for robbing TK 36 lakh in the name of DB

No arrests have been made in 12 days in a case filed against a gold trader in Narayanganj's Siddhirganj under the guise of Detective Branch (DB). Paritosh Chandra Dhar (50) filed the case with Siddhirganj Police Station on February 23.

According to businessman Paritosh, he, his brother-in-law Jiban Dhar (26), and brother-in-law Dilip Kumar Dhar (53) are trading gold in Hathazari Darussalam Market in Chittagong on a partnership basis. The name of their shop is Ratnashova Shilpalaya. He came to Dhaka on February 20 for business. He sold 60 ounces of gold at Rizvi Jewelers in Dhaka's Tantibazar and collected Tk 36 lakh. He kept BDT 30 lakh in a black shoulder bag and TK 6 lakh in a red shopping bag. He boarded on VIP service of Khadija AC bus from Dhaka's Sayedabad at 3.50 pm to reach Chittagong. When the bus reached the western slope of Kanchpur Bridge at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj around 4.30 pm, four unidentified persons on two motorcycles stopped the bus. They identified themselves as DB police and signaled to stop the bus. The driver stopped the bus. The men took him off the bus with two bags of money. Later they left him with two bags of money and left.