Robbery at city factory, house
Criminals flee with Tk 29 lakh, valuables, claims injured owner
A gang of criminals allegedly robbed cash and valuables worth around Tk 4 crore from a factory and a house after beating the factory owner in the city's Badda area on Thursday evening.
Quamrul Ullah, 49, owner of a cosmetic company Enjoy, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday.
Quamrul, who was alone at home during the robbery, said 15 to 20 men entered the house around 5:00pm and forcibly took him to a field, around one kilometre away.
They confined him to a room for four hours and again beat him. They also forced him to sign on a blank paper, he added.
When they let him go, he returned home to find all the furniture and valuables of the house and his factory, adjacent to the house, missing, including Tk 29 lakh in cash, he said.
He said the factory was closed that day.
Officer-in-Charge Mahabubur Rahman of Badda Police Station said three people were arrested after Quamrul filed a case in this connection.
Quamrul sold the house to an Australia expatriate Mizanur Rahman for Tk 75 lakh in 2006 and was living as a tenant. He wanted to buy it back for Tk one crore but Mizanur was not agreeing, creating tension between the two, he added.
Quamrul claimed that he paid Quamrul Tk 19 lakh in advance to buy the house last year and alleged that Mizanur's associates were involved with the robbery.
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