Seven-Star Group once enjoyed widespread notoriety, boasting top criminals like Subrata Bain, Mollah Masud and Murgi Milon.
Law enforcers carried out raids based on complaints of a Cox s Bazar based businessman whom the gang called over phone and demanded Tk 5 lakh, posing as members of Seven-Star Group.
He paid Tk 35,000 through mobile financial services but the gang demanded more. They threatened to abduct and kill his family members, detective officials quoted the victim.
At a press conference at DMP media centre, Walid, who was recently promoted to the rank of Additional Deputy Inspector General, said this gang included three groups.
Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 16 Jan 2021 04:25 PM BdST
Updated: 16 Jan 2021 04:26 PM BdST
Police have arrested six members of an alleged extortion ring, including its leader, in parts of Dhaka for making threatening phone calls and demanding money from people. );
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Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Cyber Crime Investigation Division nabbed the suspects during raids in Jatrabari, Motijheel, Turag and Paltan area on Thursday.
The arrestees were identified as Belal Khan, Rakib Khan Titul, A Hannan, Delowar Hossain, ‘Sohag’ and Md Khorshed Alam.
The law enforcers recovered mobile phones and SIM cards which were used to extort people along with some documents during the raids, Deputy Police Commissioner Walid Hossain said at a media briefing on Saturday.
Evidence Preservation at Police Stations: It’s a mess in Maalkhanas
At first glance, it looked like piles of trash jumbled together.
Documents, firearms, bullets, mouldy clothes and shoes, human bones and drugs were strewn across the storeroom, widely known as a maalkhana, at Kushtia Model Police Station.
All these are important pieces of evidence collected in various cases filed with the police station. Insects were buzzing inside the room, which remains closed most of the time and smelled. We do not have proper facilities to preserve the evidence and there are chances of those getting damaged, said Kamruzzaman Talukdar, officer-in-charge of the police station, adding that he contacted the higher authorities for special arrangements to preserve the evidence.
Rape Case Investigation: Delays put justice at risk
Collage: Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo
Two schoolgirls lost their way back home in the capital s Badda from an outing on the night of February 8 last year. Wandering on the road for a few hours, they came across one Emon Hossain.
Emon, 30, sacked organising secretary of Badda Thana Krishak League, promised the girls, both aged around 13, to take them to his home nearby, saying they were like his daughter who is of their age and can stay the night safely with her.
Convinced, the girls agreed to go without knowing the danger lurking for them.
25th December, 2020 09:32:04
Smuggling of the deadly drug Yaba into Bangladesh has not stopped yet despite the government’s crackdown against the banned narcotic as top smugglers are going unpunished.
Detective sources said only grass-roots traders are being arrested with Yaba tablets in different places of the country, but their ringleaders remain out of touch.
Recently, 102 listed Yaba smugglers, including 16 relatives of former lawmaker Bodi, have surrendered to law enforcers in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar, they mentioned.
Over 50 top drug traffickers, including some godfathers and police officers, who are on the list of the home ministry, have still remained out of tough, they added.