Police are suspecting involvement of a former Jubo League leader in the mugging of Tk20 lakh from a store manager in Goran of the capital.
As for the mugging of Tk90 lakh from a private car by shooting the driver at Rupnagar in Mirpur, police are suspecting the three who were in the vehicle and were taking the money to deposit in two different banks.
Both the crimes were committed on Sunday.
Police said they suspect the accomplices of Galib, who was the president of ward no 23 of Jubo League, snatched the money in his presence from the store manager.
Officer-in-Charge of Khilgaon police station Mostafiz Bhuiyan said some suspects would soon be interrogated over Sunday’s mugging.
On Sunday afternoon, muggers shot Abdus Salam, 30, and took away the money. He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Salam also filed a case accusing six to seven unnamed people.
Requesting anonymity, an investigator said he learned that Salam would go to the bank to deposit the money on Sunday.
“In the morning, Galib’s accomplices took position near the store Salam works at. Salam, accompanied by an employee of the store, headed for the local branch of Dhaka Bank on a rickshaw in the afternoon to deposit the money. A few minutes later, Galib and his abettors swooped on them, fired Salam and fled with the bag the money was in,” he said.
Police suspect the three passengers of the car had connections with the muggers in the Mirpur case.
The probe team led by an additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has already quizzed 13 people, including the three car passengers and the four who were riding two motorbikes to escort the vehicle.
“The escorts witnessed the whole incident but took no action. They did not even ask any passer-by to do something,” said an investigator. He said video footage obtained from CCTV cameras installed in nearby buildings was scrutinised and a mugger was identified.
“We have interrogated some youths and we hope the case will be solved shortly,” Nisharul Arif, deputy commissioner (Mirpur division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
The three passengers in the car work at a distribution firm that has business with bKash and Airtel.
