A case has been filed over an attack and vandalism at the warehouse of AJR Courier Service in the capital’s Hazaribagh area.
Afsar Uddin, manager of the HR and Administration department of AJR Parcel and Courier Service Limited, filed the case with Hazaribagh Police Station around 10:30pm on Wednesday. At least 70 to 80 people were accused in the case.
Md Mosharraf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Hazaribagh Police Station, confirmed the incident.
Efforts are underway to arrest those accused, and police operations are ongoing in this regard.
Earlier, around 6:45pm on Tuesday, an attack took place at the courier service’s warehouse near Mendi Dental College Road. Between 70 and 80 people wearing masks and helmets took part in the attack and vandalism.
The case alleges that goods worth approximately Tk31 lakh were looted from the office during the incident.
According to the case statement, around 10:30pm on 18 October, two unidentified people arrived on a motorcycle at the gate of the courier service’s Hazaribagh Central Sorting Centre.
They asked security guard Md Harun Ar Rashid about Operations Manager Nizam Uddin. When told that Nizam Uddin was not on duty, they tried to enter the premises.
When they were denied entry without permission, they threatened the security guard and left. Later on 20 October, 70 to 80 people wearing masks and helmets arrived at the warehouse’s west gate. Of them, 40 to 50 entered the premises and created panic by damaging CCTV cameras and cutting their cables. The remaining 30 to 40 stayed outside.
Eight to nine of the armed attackers entered and vandalised furniture and customers’ goods.
During the incident, one of the attackers claimed to be a member of “Captain Emon’s” group and continued the attack while demanding the premises and rent. They broke the lock and door of the CCTV camera server room and carried out vandalism.
The attackers looted one Cisco core switch, one router, seven network video recorders (NVRs) for various channels, 38 hard drives, one server rack, 40 two-megapixel cameras, eight CPUs, eight monitors and one laptop. The estimated market value of the looted items is Tk31 lakh.
The case statement further alleges that, since the incident, a person named Saiful has been calling officers and employees from the number 966577495468, identifying himself as a member of “Captain Emon’s” group and threatening them. The attackers have also previously been accused of extortion and intimidation.
