Detectives have arrested three people in connection with the theft at two jewellery  shops in the capital's Karnafuli Garden City market. The arrestees are Shahid Matabbar alias Shaheen, Shaishab Roy alias Sumon and Uttam Kumar Sur. Read: Case against seven cops in Cumilla for looting cash and jewellery Briefing reporters at the DMP media centre on Tuesday, Additional Commissioner (DB) of the DMP AKM Hafiz Akhtar said that a gang of thieves stole a huge quantity of gold ornaments from two shops-- “Mohana Jewelers” and “Best and Best Creation Jewel Avenue Jewelers” in the early morning on December 16.  A case was filed at Ramna Model Police Station in this regard and then detectives (Ramna Division) started investigation into the incident alongside the local police station, he added. AKM Hafiz said Shaheen was arrested from Nagarkanda police station area of Faridpur district on Sunday after examining a CCTV footage. Read:Police: Housemaid held with stolen gold jewellery, money According to his statement, the Detectives of DB (Ramna Division) conducted simultaneous drives and arrested Sumon and Uttam from Shakhari Bazar of Barisal District and Kotwali Police Station area in the capital on Monday. During primary interrogation, they confessed to their involvement in the theft incident, he added.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested 42 snatchers, including members of ‘Salam party’, a gang of snatchers, in separate drives in the city on Friday.

A former employee of Shah Md Tobarak Hossain hired killers to murder him for exacting revenge and robbing him, the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said Sunday.