2 held over Joypurhat Brac Bank heist
News Desk: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained two persons in Narayanganj Sadar upazila early today suspecting their involvement with the burglary of around Tk 2 crore from the branch of Brac bank in Joypurhat.
The detainees are: Babul Das and Uttam Mallik, both hailed from Jhalakathi district, our Narayanganj correspondent reports quoting Anwar Latif Khan, commanding officer of Rab-11.
Acting on a tip-off, the elite force conducted a raid at a house of one Nazir at Pilkuni area, which was rented by the detainees.
Criminals broke into two-storey Shahjahan Mansion, which houses the Brac bank branch on the first floor, by making a hole in the wall that the building shares with a mall, Mousumi Market during last week of September.
Md Hasanuzzaman, an official of the bank's SME section ...