Six people have been arrested for robbing and stabbing assistant commissioner (land) of Patuakhali’s Kalapara upazila Abu Bakar Siddique in Savar on Monday night.
Police arrested them by conducting several drives in Savar on Wednesday night.
The arrestees are identified as Rasel Fakir, 20, Md Nayeem, 20, Md Kamrul Hasan, 22, Sajib Ahmed, 20, and Md Arman, 20, and Golam Mostafa, 25.
Md Asaduzzaman, Dhaka Superintendent of Police (SP), disclosed the information during a press briefing at Savar Model Police Station on Thursday afternoon.
Mentioning that police also recovered mobile phones and cash from the arrestees, he said the arrestees have admitted to their involvement in the crime during primary investigation.
Abu Bakar Siddique, son of Kamal Uddin of Mirzapur upazila in Tangail district, was robbed by the gang at CNB area on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar at around 11:15pm on Monday when he was returning to his training centre after visiting his ailing mother in the capital.
The robbers stabbed Abu Bakar and snatched a mobile phone and cash from him.
