Police arrested 12 people during a robbery in the disguise of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence at an apartment in the Khulshi area in Chattogram city Friday night.
The incident took place at about 10:30pm on the eighth floor of Sanmar Royal Rich building, the apartment of Gias Uddin Ansari, a former managing director of Jamuna Oil Company, said Mojibur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khulshi Police Station.
A group of 15 robbers, posing as members of the DGFI, arrived at the building in two microbuses, subdued the security guards by binding their hands and feet and blindfolding them, took the guards鈥� mobile phones, dismantled the CCTV hard drive, and disconnected the intercom system, the police said.聽
The group then broke into Gias Uddin Ansari鈥檚 apartment and began to loot valuables when his neighbours called the national emergency hotline, 999, alerting the police.聽
Responding swiftly, police rushed to the spot, conducted a raid there, and arrested 12 of the robbers.
OC Mojibur said that they seized a crowbar, nine fake DGFI ID cards, three toy pistols, 25 empty plastic sacks, two ropes, two towels, and a black microbus used during the robbery.聽
Chattogram Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner (crime) Roish Uddin said that the robbery was pre-planned and a case was filed in this connection.
