Police has arrested seven members of a juvenile gang in connection with a case filed on charges of kidnapping and extortion in Dhaka鈥檚 Uttara area.
A team of Uttara West police station arrested them in a raid at Uttara at about 3:00am Sunday and recovered a motorcycle, knife, two mobile phones and Tk 2,000 in cash from their possessions, said a press release.
A case was registered with the police station by Shakhawat Hossain to this end.
The case details said that the detained juvenile gang members intercepted an auto-rickshaw, carrying the plaintiff of the case Shakhawat and his friend Md Alamgir Hossain when they reached in front of Uttara Modern Medical College at about 10:25pm on November 12.
The gang members took them behind the shooting house on Lake Drive Road in Sector No 7 and threatened them to kill with a sharp knife and snatched away two mobile phones and Tk 19,600 in cash from them.
They later demanded a ransom of Tk 2,00,000 from the plaintiff鈥檚 father. When he refused to pay the ransom, they physically tortured them.
After not receiving the ransom, the juvenile gang member left the plaintiff and his friend on the bank of the lake and fled the scene by a motorcycle and rickshaw.
