Planning minister’s phone snatched from SUV at Dhaka’s Bijoy Sarani

Mobile phone of Planning Minister MA Mannan was snatched while he was talking on the phone in his SUV at Dhaka's Bijoy Sarani area on Sunday evening.

Selimuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Kafrul Police Station, confirmed the incident to The Daily Star.

The incident happened around 7:00pm on Sunday when the minister left his office and was waiting in traffic at Bijoy Sarani. As the window of the SUV was lowered, an unidentified person grabbed his phone and ran away, the OC said.

"A case was filed following the incident. We are trying to recover the phone and arrest the culprit," he added.

Such incidents of mobile phones being snatched from commuters are frequent at Dhaka's Bijoy Sarani and Fargate area.