Detectives have busted a gang of frauds who had been cheating high school graduates in the name of giving them constable-level jobs in the air force.
Early yesterday morning, they also rescued 44 young men who had been held captive by the frauds in a house in the Mirpur DOHS area and detained four people in connection.
In a press briefing in the afternoon, Sheikh Nazmul Alam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s Detective Branch (DB), said the fraudsters are retired air force warrant officer Siddikur Rahman, retired civil staff Jahirul Islam, and their associates Swapan Hossain and Enamul Haque Liton.
During the raid, a team of DB also seized around 50 official seals of college lecturers, high school principals, upazila officials, union parishad chairmen; 46 non-judicial stamps and marriage registration forms; 60 Ministry of Defence Constable (MODC) job application forms; and 52 medical reports of the victims.
During interrogation, Siddikur and Jahirul said they used to introduce themselves as high officials of the air force and lure fresh SSC graduates in the name of jobs in the force.
They took the victims’ signatures in marriage registration forms so that they could be framed in women oppression lawsuits in case they refused to pay them the money they demanded for giving them jobs.
The fraudsters usually charged from Tk3 lakh to Tk5 lakh. They mainly targetted teenagers from the norther districts of the country. In fact, all of those rescued yesterday are from the Rangpur districts.
DB also said the gang had been holding the victims captive for the last 10 days in the house.
Among the arrested, Siddikur is security officer at the Radisson Hotel in Dhaka and Jahirul does not have any fixed profession. Their associates Swapan and Liton claimed that this was the first time they had got involved with the racket for the first time.
Detectives are now trying to find out whether the owner of the that house is also involved with the gang or not.
