Staff Reporter :
Detective Branch (DB) of Police has arrested a woman on charge of stealing mobile phones and other valuables attending various programmes and seminars at hotels and clubs in the city.
The accused has been identified as Zobaida Sultana, 44, a daughter of former joint secretary.
She had been stealing like this for last 12 years.
Harun Or Rashid, additional commissioner of police, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), also Chief of Detective Branch confirmed this information at a press conference held at his office on Mintu Road in the capital on Saturday.
Earlier, on March 3, Zobaida attended a seminar on Gynaecological Oncology and had stolen a mobile phone, bag and ornaments of Dr Farhana Huq.
She sold all the valuables, but transferred the WhatsApp number of Dr Farhana to her mobile phone, DB chief said.
Since then, in disguise of Dr Farhana she prescribed different patients and had taken a handsome amount of money from them.
On March 12, a case was filed with the Ramna Police Station in this regard.
Detective branch of police had started a secret investigation in connection with the case.
After investigation detectives arrested Zobaida on Friday.
They also seized 16 women’s handbags, four mobile sets, five credit cards of different banks, ornaments, cards of different super shops and four pen drives, the DB chief said.
Till now, she had stolen 700 to 800 mobile phones. She mainly targeted women, jobholders, and university students.
Harun said during primary interrogation, Zobaida has confessed her involvement in stealing.
