Sarwar Hossain and Mohammad Jahangir had been running an organised gang that lifted more than 500 vehicles from Dhaka and elsewhere in the last 20 years. With around 25 members across the country, the gang has the expertise and equipment to engrave new numbers on the engine and chassis of a stolen
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Carjackers on the prowl
Make city too risky for drivers, bikers Shamsur Rahman was coming home from a party on a Friday night with his wife. It was around midnight when he made a turn to his Gulshan road but he noticed a car behind him. It was moving slowly and it felt like it was shadowing him. Shamsur ... Read more
They kill drivers, snatch vehicles
On January 2, criminals stopped a rice-laden truck by putting barricade with another truck in Uttara. They then killed the driver and the helper, dumped their bodies in a roadside ditch at Banani and sped away with the truck. A week later, police recovered their decomposed bodies. They also arrested two of the gang