A Kishoreganj court yesterday granted a three-day remand for Mahima Akter, the second wife of Sohel, the mastermind of the Sonali Bank burglary, and truck helper Alamgir in a case filed for burgling Tk16.40 crore from the bank.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Hamidul Islam of Judicial Court 1 of Kishoreganj granted the remand.
On Saturday, police arrested Mahima in the capital’s Jatrabari area with Tk2.5 lakh. Mahima Aktar, 27, wife of Sohel alias Yusuf Munshi, was detained by a team of police led by Abdul Malek, the case’s investigation officer and the officer-in-charge of Kishoreganj police station and a Dhaka detective branch team around 4:45pm.
Abdul Malek said they picked up Mahima Akter for interrogation. The OC said Mahima had been with him during the heist and helped him for two years.
He said they had recovered the money from a house on the fifth floor of a building in Kadamtoli.
The 37-year-old Yusuf dug a tunnel between his rented house and the main branch of Sonali Bank in Kishoreganj town to commit the burglary that he had been planning for two years.
On the other hand, on Sunday a truck which was used during the burglary was confiscated along with two helpers including Alamgir from Atharobari of Ishwarganj upazila, Mymensingh. The court granted a three-day remand for Alamgir yesterday.
A covered van was also recovered from Shyampur in Dhaka which was also used in the same criminal operation.
