Online Desk: Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested seven members of a robbery gang, including the mastermind, over a robbery incident on Dhaka Elevated Expressway impersonating them as RAB members.

The arrested men are Sagar, leader of the gang, Sabuj Mia, Abu Yousuf, Didar Munshi, Ferdous Wahid, Al Amin Duari, and Daud Hossain Mollah.

Police, however, managed to recover Tk 20 lakh, out of robbed money Tk 48 lakh.

The DB team arrested them from Dhaka and different districts during their raids and recovered Tk 20 of the robbed money, said Harun Or Rashid, DB chief of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, at a press conference at the DMP media centre on Sunday.

On October 10, some officials of a textile factory withdrew Tk 83.50 lakh from a private bank and handed over Tk 35.50 lakh to their business partners inside the bank. When the officials were taking the remaining Tk 48 lakh to Banani using the expressway, the robber gang waylaid them near Khilkhet, introducing themselves as RAB members, the DB chief said.

The robbers took the officials in their car and beat up them. They took the Tk 48 lakh from them.

A case was filed with Khilkhet Police Station in this regard, Harun Or Rashid added.