Looted gold ornaments recovered in Ctg: 4 held

Police yesterday recovered over 50 tolas of gold ornaments looted from a house at Sholoshahar in the port city on Thursday morning. PHOTO: STAR

Suman Bhattacharya, 26, and Rafiq, 35, were arrested from Bayezid and Sholoshahar areas on Friday night in connection with the daring robbery that took place at Chowdhury Plaza, sources said. Acting on their confession, Panchlaish thana police arrested two other accomplices Sujan, 25, and Nandan Das, 33, from Bahodderhat and Badurtali yesterday.

The police recovered Tk 2.8 lakh, which came from the sale of looted ornaments, from Nandan.

They then launched a massive search operation taking the robbers with them and recovered over 50 tolas of gold ornaments from the Uttam Jewellers at Bahodderhat and two other jewellery shops at Hazari Gali.

The four robbers posing as Detective Branch police entered the apartment of Sirajuddin Chowdhury on the 4th floor of the Chowdhury Plaza at around 11:00am on Thursday, saying that they wanted to search the rooms for planted bombs.

They then held the elderly mother of Sirajuddin hostage at gunpoint and took away around 100 tolas of gold ornaments and Tk 25,000

Sirajuddin filed a case on the same day.