A case was filed against three named and 14-15 unnamed people on Wednesday over alleged looting of valuables from a house Tuesday evening in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area claiming that the house belonged to Tanveer Imam, son of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 political adviser late HT Imam.
Police arrested three people in this connection. The arrested are Jewel Khondoker, 48, his son Shakil Khondoker, 24, and Shakil Ahmed, 28.
Tanveer was a former member of parliament for the Sirajganj-4 constituency.
Police said that the incident took place at about 11:50pm on Tuesday and they were informed about the matter through the National Emergency Service number, 999.
Gulshan police station officer-in-charge Mahmudur Rahman said that the caretaker of the house, Abdul Mannan, filed a case with the police station on Wednesday.
鈥楾hree named people and 14-15 unnamed others were made accused in the case. Local people were instigated by some conspirators and stormed the house creating a mob,鈥� the OC said.
He said that the arrested were sent to jail through a Dhaka court on Wednesday.
According to the case statement, the named three accused allegedly looted two gold chains and an anklet weighing 1.98 bhori worth Tk聽3,00,000.
The plaintiff of the case, Abdul Mannan, could not be reached for comments over phone.
The owner of the flat is now staying aboard.
Chief adviser鈥檚 press wing in a press release on Wednesday said that the house belonged to ex-wife of Tanveer Imam and said that people in the name of searching the house vandalised it and tried to loot it.
About 20-25 people entered the house in the name of searching by breaking doors on information that a huge sum of illegal money, arms and Awami League collaborators were in the house, the release added.
The CA office said that Dhaka Metropolitan Police Gulshan division deputy commissioner, Gulshan police OC and members of Bangladesh Army reached the spot at about 12:30am on Wednesday after receiving information on the incident and detained three people from the spot.
Referring to a preliminary investigation, the release said that Shakil Ahmed, 28, a former caretaker of the house, mainly instigated people to storm the house by saying that there was a possibility of getting Tk聽200-300 crore by searching the house.
It also said that a group of people had also tried to enter the house at about 10:30pm on Monday and police had removed them from the spot.
The home ministry has again alerted people not to take law into their own hands, the release said, adding that if any crime incidents took place, they should inform the nearest police station at the earliest.