Law and order situation in the port city is now vulnerable despite frequent drives by law enforcement agencies against criminals.
The senior police officials, however, expressed their satifaction over the situation. The incidents of snatching, burglaries, kidnapping, murder and rape are happening every now and then.
Burglars looted around Tk 38 lakh breaking open a vault from the office of Base Textile Limited in Kalurghat Industrial area on January 11.
A gang of armed robbers looted cash and valuables from the bungalow of Bangladesh Railway’s general manager in Chittagong on May 18.
Masked men stormed into the head office of Mishmak Development Ltd at Goal
Pahar intersection in the port city on June 1 and looted valuables and Tk 23.5 lakh in cash.
The burglars looted 36 tolas of gold ornaments and Tk 4 lakh in cash from the Rashid Ahmed Chowdhury building in the Panchlaish area at 3:00am on June 4.
Police said three identified gangs of burglars commit the crimes, come out of jail on bail few days later of their arrest and start committing the burglaries afresh.
Meanwhile, the people of Hamidchar locked in a clash with the residents of Bolirhat under Chandgaon Police Station over occupying a piece of land at Hamidchar on April 17. TWo people were killed and 15 others injured in the half an hour clash, said police.
Jan-e-Alam Babu was killed by his friends over a cricket match in Rahman Nagar area
under Panchlaish police station on May 8.
Shohag, 22, was stabbed to death by his rivals over establishment of supremacy in the area at Halishahar on June 10.
Schoolboys Supam and Mushfi were killed by their relatives in a feud over family property. Supam, a GPA-5 achiever in the last SSC examinations, was kidnapped from the city and killed in Bandarban allegedly by the hired goons of his uncle, Sunil Das, on May 8 while Mushfi, a student of class VI, was poisoned to death by his stepmother on March 23 at his house in Halishahar area.
The police arrested the persons responsible for the crimes but failed to arrest the culprits involved in gang-rape and sex related crimes.
On January! this year, a girl was gang-raped by five young men, one of them her boyfriend, on the top of Matijharna hill in
Lalkhan Bazar area under Khulsi Police Station at dead of night. The rapists threw her from the hill. But the girl fortunately survived as she fell on the roof of a tin-shed house.
Police recovered body of a woman from the top of Batali Hill on January 3. Khulsi police suspect that the woman might have been killed after gang-rape as she was found naked.
A gang of criminals burnt garment worker Panna Rani Das, 18, to death after gang-rape at South Kattali under Pahartali Police Station on June 8.
Police are yet to arrest anyone in these incidents.
A 14-year-oid indigenous girl of Bandarban was gang-raped at night by the manager and his friends in Diamond hotel at Bahaddarhat on February 16.
TWo minor girls were raped alternately by two men at a house in Bahaddarhat area and succumbed to their injuries on May 2 at a hospital.
On the other hand, police recovered four bodies in the city, including one of trader Masud Miah, 40.
Deputy Commissioner of CMP (north) Amena Begum said she is satisfied with the prevailing law and order situation in the port city as most of the criminals in the cases were arrested. She said there was nothing to be worried about over the law and order situation, terming the incidents isolated ones.
Commissioner Abul Kashem at a monthly meeting of CMP on June 19 termed the situation normal but pledged to continue drives and increase mobile teams to maintain law and order situation.