Five gang members held in city

Detective Branch (DB) members arrested five members of a gang, who helped in getting bank loans by making fake National Identity Cards (NIDs), from the city's Mirpur area, reports UNB.

The arrestees are Md Sumon Parvez (40), Md Majid (42), Siddharth Shankar Sutradhar (32), Md Anwarul Islam (26) and Md Abdullah Al Mamun (41).

Twelve dual, fake and duplicate NID cards were recovered from their possession.

Tipped off, a team of Organised Crime and Vehicle Theft Prevention Team under the DB (Lalbagh Division) conducted a drive in D-Block area of Mirpur Zoo Road at 7:45 pm on Saturday and arrested the five syndicate members.

Deputy Commissioner (Media) Walid Hossain said Sumon and Mazid used to help loan defaulters to apply for loan using fake NIDs and they usually took Tk 80,000 to Tk 100,000 from each of them for making fake NID cards.