Police late Wednesday night arrested seven members of an abduction gang including a teenage girl.
The gang members introduce them as members of law enforcement agency and then abduct their victims.
The arrestees are Liakat Ali, Kamrul Islam, Shahidul Islam alias kamal, Nazmul Haque Didar, Ruhul Amin alias Ripon, Obayedur Rahman Batu and lone female member of the gang Meherun Nesa Keya.
Female members of the gang build a relation with men from affluent family before they abduct them.
Police recovered improvised lethal weapons, two toy pistols and ten cell phones from their possession.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner (Mirpur Zone) Kaiyumuzaman at a press briefing at the DMP Media Centre yesterday afternoon said they were arrested around 11pm on Wednesday night with the weapons.
He said the gang first targeted a man from a rich family and its the girl members built a relation with him. As the relation continued Meherun asked the victim to meet her at a certain place.
When the victim came there to meet her he was taken captive by other members of the gang impersonating members of law enforcement agency and later looted the victim’s belongings at gunpoint.
They also forcibly took nude photograph of the victim with the girl and blackmailed his family into paying money through bKash accounts.
After receiving the money, they blindfolded the victim and left him in a secluded place before they fled away.
In another drive Mirpur police arrested five inter-district robbers when they were preparing for robbery.
The arrestees are Kamaml Hossain, Badha, Asmat Ali, Rimon and Sabu.
Police also recovered three lethal weapons, a mini pickup van used for robbery from their possession.
The DC said they were arrested from Kalyanpur area around 5pm on Wednesday afternoon.
All of them were members of an inter districts robber gang and accused in several robbery cases, he added.
