Jewellers protest robbery
Jewellers in the district town kept their shutters down yesterday, protesting robbery at a shop.
Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth Tk one crore from a jewellery shop at Station road early yesterday.
Police picked up four night guards Abdul Goffar, Bakul, Alamgir and Papul in this connection.
Bangladesh Jewellery Malik Samity Gaibandha unit observed a daylong shutdown of all the jewellery shops in the town yesterday, demanding recovery of the missing ornaments and immediate arrest and punishment of the culprits.
At a protest programme, leaders of the samity said a gang of 10/12 came by a pick-up van and tied up night guard Goffar at about 4:00am.
They then entered Hira Jewellers by breaking open the locks of its shutter and took away the gold ornaments at gunpoint, they said.
The jewellery traders felt insecure as the robbery took place in the heart of the town, said Tapan Chandra Karmaker, president of the samity.
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