Using auto-rickshaws or taxicabs for mugging is passé. More and more
assailants these days use stolen cars, say police and two such
miscreants spoke with.
About the slight change in modus operandi, this mugger 'Siddique' (name changed on request to protect identity) told : "The possibility of getting caught increases if we use auto-rickshaws or taxicabs. The police now keep a sharp eye on these vehicles. Besides, their numbers have also decreased."
According to him, they first steal a car or a motorcycle and then use it to zoom in on victims and forcibly take away valuables from them.
Detective Branch (DB) of police's Dhaka metropolitan deputy commissioner (south) Mohammad Monirul Islam also said such offenders usually use stolen motorcycles.
Siddique said it also makes sense to abandon the stolen vehicle and flee after mugging, he added.
EASY BAIL, BACK TO 'BASICS'
While most such snatching and mugging cases are not solved, thanks largely to indifference shown by the victims for recovery of the robbed items, lack of enforcement also comes in the way of police in strictly dealing with these assailants.
Noor-e-Alam Habu, a mugger, told : "I was held in such cases on several occasions but was freed after serving four or five months in jail."
He said the syndicates "deal with" the police and have particular lawyers to try such cases.
Asked why he returns to the same job after being freed on bail, Habu said, "I have no other means to fall back on. My bosses are Tunda Masud and Nazrul Islam Gira. And though I've never seen them and only execute orders I receive over phone, their men will kill me if I want to leave this line."
He said on more than one occasion he tried to mend his ways and become a "good person". "But couldn't," he added.
DB officer Monirul also said, "The hijackers and carjackers return to the same job after bail. We do not get permission even to grill them (thoroughly). As a result, a single person is held several times."
Lawyers, however, blame the police for the bails hijackers get.
Mahbub Hasan Rana, a lawyer in Dhaka District Judges' Court, said: "Carjacking is a non-bailable offence in line with Section 379 of the Penal Code. But the accused get bail for weaknesses in remand petitions filed by the police, apart from secret deals (struck with the syndicates)."
He said the police should be more active to investigate and make reports in such cases.
About the slight change in modus operandi, this mugger 'Siddique' (name changed on request to protect identity) told : "The possibility of getting caught increases if we use auto-rickshaws or taxicabs. The police now keep a sharp eye on these vehicles. Besides, their numbers have also decreased."
According to him, they first steal a car or a motorcycle and then use it to zoom in on victims and forcibly take away valuables from them.
Detective Branch (DB) of police's Dhaka metropolitan deputy commissioner (south) Mohammad Monirul Islam also said such offenders usually use stolen motorcycles.
Siddique said it also makes sense to abandon the stolen vehicle and flee after mugging, he added.
EASY BAIL, BACK TO 'BASICS'
While most such snatching and mugging cases are not solved, thanks largely to indifference shown by the victims for recovery of the robbed items, lack of enforcement also comes in the way of police in strictly dealing with these assailants.
Noor-e-Alam Habu, a mugger, told : "I was held in such cases on several occasions but was freed after serving four or five months in jail."
He said the syndicates "deal with" the police and have particular lawyers to try such cases.
Asked why he returns to the same job after being freed on bail, Habu said, "I have no other means to fall back on. My bosses are Tunda Masud and Nazrul Islam Gira. And though I've never seen them and only execute orders I receive over phone, their men will kill me if I want to leave this line."
He said on more than one occasion he tried to mend his ways and become a "good person". "But couldn't," he added.
DB officer Monirul also said, "The hijackers and carjackers return to the same job after bail. We do not get permission even to grill them (thoroughly). As a result, a single person is held several times."
Lawyers, however, blame the police for the bails hijackers get.
Mahbub Hasan Rana, a lawyer in Dhaka District Judges' Court, said: "Carjacking is a non-bailable offence in line with Section 379 of the Penal Code. But the accused get bail for weaknesses in remand petitions filed by the police, apart from secret deals (struck with the syndicates)."
He said the police should be more active to investigate and make reports in such cases.
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