Armed robbery at air force officer’s house in Noakhali, Jubo Dal convener arrested

District Representative

A court has sent the son of a reserved female UP member and the leader of the Union Jubo Dal to prison after being arrested for a heinous robbery at gunpoint at the house of an air force officer in Sadar Upazila of Noakhali.

Today, Sunday, January 4th, around noon, when the accused appeared before the Noakhali Senior Judicial Magistrate No. 1 Amli Court and applied for bail, Judge Afsana Islam Rumi rejected his bail and ordered him to be sent to prison.

Earlier, the robbery incident took place recently at the house of Biman Bangladesh Airlines ground service officer Ismail Hossain Babul in Manarkhil village, ward number 3 of Charmatua Union, Sadar Upazila.

The arrested accused is named Md. Shahadat Hossain (36). He is the son of Nurul Haque Mistry, joint convener of the Charmatua Union Jubo Dal of the upazila, ward number 4, and Nurbanu Aleya, a reserved women UP member of the same union.

According to police and the victim’s family, the victim’s aviation officer filed a case with Sudharam Police Station immediately after the incident.

The investigating officer of the case, Sub-Inspector (SI) Sadhan Chandra Das of Sudharam Police Station, identified the accused involved in the incident and conducted raids in various areas. At one stage, the accused involved in the incident, Rubel (28), Jahangir Alam (38), Md. Harun (35), Khurshid Alam (60), and Md. Mosharraf Hossain (45), were arrested.

Later, according to the statements of the arrested accused, Shahadat was made the second accused in the robbery case. After a meeting at Shahadat’s house, the house of Air Force Officer Babul was robbed. At that time, the robbers held the people of the house hostage at gunpoint and looted cash, gold ornaments and valuables.

Plaintiff’s lawyer Hossain Chowdhury said that the judge sent the accused to Noakhali District Jail after hearing the case. He also has cases of theft, robbery, drug trafficking and torture of women. He is a member of an inter-district gang of robbers.