Three arrested over armed attack on courier warehouse

Police have arrested three people in connection with an attack on a courier company’s warehouse in Hazaribagh, in which goods worth about Tk31 lakh was looted.

Mosharraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh police station, told the Daily Sun that one suspect, named as Mahir Ahmed Rojin, was arrested on Wednesday and two others were detained on Thursday.

The names of the latter two have not been released. He said they would be produced in court on Friday.

Asked whether police had found any involvement of Sanjidul Islam Emon, known as “Captain Emon” and described by police as a most-wanted underworld figure, the officer said investigators were looking into the matter.

The attack took place at the central sorting warehouse of AJR Parcel and Courier Service at around 6:44pm on 20 October.

Afsar Uddin, the firm’s manager for HR and administration, filed a case against unidentified people at the police station on Wednesday. According to the company, 70 to 80 people stormed the premises, vandalised property and carried off equipment.

The case statement alleges that the attackers numbering 70-80, wearing masks and helmets, arrived on 35 to 40 motorcycles.

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Between 40 and 50 of them entered the compound while the rest remained outside the gate.

Eight or nine were said to be armed, according to the case.

The complaint says the group, who identified themselves as associates of Captain Emon, smashed CCTV cameras, damaged furniture and customers’ parcels, and broke into the server room.

Items listed as stolen include a Cisco core switch, a router, network video recorders, hard disks, a server rack, 40 cameras, eight CPUs, eight monitors and a laptop.