Armed criminals looted Tk 20 lakh and cigarettes after kidnapping a businessman in the city on

Saturday night.

As Lutfur Baksh Sadhon, owner of Messrs Moula Baksh-Karim Baksh, distributor of the British American Tobacco Company Ltd,

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was returning home with his driver in a microbus, some youngsters on five motorbikes and two private cars followed them.

The bikers overtook the microbus in front of the Blue Bird High School, took its control at arms point and drove the vehicle to the Salutikor bridge.

Forcing Lutfur to hand over his shop's keys, the criminals joined by others coming in a private car, opened the shop.

After looting Tk 20 lakh in cash and 2.5 cartons of cigarettes from the shop, the gang left Lutfur and his driver Anwar on the road and fled the scene with the microbus.

Lutfur went to the Kotwali Police Station at about 9:00pm and informed the police who arrested four people from Kalighat area suspecting their links with the incident.

The firm was looted several times before.