Staff Correspondent

A former CID sub-inspector was arrested yesterday, nearly 11 months after he was accused of leading a gang to rob a migrant worker who was on his way to the Dhaka airport to go to Dubai.

The incident came to light on Tuesday as part of an investigation by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch.

That day, a phone call was leaked containing negotiations allegedly between the family of the offending CID official and a “senior DB official”, with the aim of the conversation being to let the culprit off the hook.

The Daily Star has heard the record of the conversation.

Additional Commissioner (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, AKM Hafiz Akter told The Daily Star that there was a highway robbery near Kawla in the capital last October.

The victim was Md Roman, who lost different currencies worth Tk 4.78 lakh in the robbery. He filed a robbery case with the Airport Police Station the next day.

According to the first information report filed by the victim, on October 19, 2020, the autorickshaw he was in was intercepted by a microbus.

“Two individuals got down from the car, introduced themselves as DB police officials, and shoved me and my brother inside the car. They put handcuffs on us, blindfolded us, and beat us up. They dumped us near the Rampura staff quarters the next morning,” the victim said in the case statement.