Bagerhat Correspondent :
A thief named Yasin (19) was arrested on Saturday moring along with huge quantities of iron sheets weighing 16 tones 4 hundred 28 kgs stolen from Bangladesh-India Friendship Thermo Power Plant at Rampal under Rampal Upazila in Bagerhat district. He was arrested by a joint force of army and police of Fakirhat Model PS from Sukdara area under Fakirhat Upazila in Bagerhat district, according to a report received here. Arrested Yasin is the son of one Mainul Hawladar of village Amedabad within Naihati Union under Rupsa Upazila in Khulna district. S M Alamgir Kabir, Officer-in-charge of Fakirhat Model PS told, acting on secret information a squad of police and army conducted the raid at Sukdara area and recovered the afore said iron sheets of Rampal Power Plant from a “Bhangari” shop where old and unusable iron, aluminum, plastic, CI sheets etc. are purchased. In this connection Yasin Sardar, one of the members of the gang of thieves was arrested. But sensing the appearance of the police Halim Sardar, the owner of the ‘Bhagari’ shop managed to escape.
According to a delayed report received here, a thief named Chandan Mandol (28) was arrested along with iron materials weighing 5 thousand 5 hundred kgs stolen from Rampal Thermo Power Plant by the police of Batiaghata PS (in Khulna district), adjacent to Rampal Upazila in Bagerhat district from a crematorium on the bank of the river Pashur at Purbo Halia village at the night of November 27.
