A Dhaka court sent two police constables back to jail yesterday after rejecting his bail petition in a case filed with Rampura police station over embezzlement of smuggled 149 gold bars.
Metropolitan Magistrate Meher Nigar Suchana passed the order after hearing on a bail petition filed by police constables Wahidul Islam and Akash Chowdhury through their counsel in the case.
On April 2, a Dhaka court had sent Wahid and Akash to jail along with three other arrested in connection with misappropriation of the smuggled gold.
They are: Sub-Inspector Manzurul Islam of Rampura police station, Md Sajib Shikdar, a police informer, and Mahfuz Alam Roni, a car driver.
Detective Branch of police arrested the three policemen and their informer with 149 gold bars in their possession in separate drives in Dhaka, Naryanganj, Gazipur and Bogra on April 1.
According to the case statement, Manzurul and his patrol team confiscated 149 gold bars from a microbus at Banasree’s Balurmath area on March 13.
On April 8, DB Inspector Md Fazlul Haque filed a case against the accused in this regard with Rampura police station.