A robbery was held in broad daylight in two school teacher’s house in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali district on Sunday. The incident occurred in two apartments of the same building where the two school teachers live.
A total of six bhori of gold ornament, around Tk 2 lakh cash, bank checks and other goods were looted from the two apartments. There was no one at the time of the incident.
The incident occurred in a building in front of Ali Akbar Government Primary School of the upazila on Sunday noon. One of the victims Parmita Karmakarta was a tenant at third floor of the building. She is a teacher in Ali Akbar Government Primary School. Her husband Sujan Shil is a teacher of Management Department in Government Brojomohun College in Barishal. He lives in Barishal.
Parmia Karmakar said she went to school as usual. However, when she came home in the afternoon, she saw her door lock is broken and her apartment is in haphazard condition. The robbers took almost 5 bhori of gold ornaments, bank checks and Tk 2 lakh cash from her house.
Another victim Beauty Ojha lives on the second floor of the same building. She is a teacher of Bangla in Karpurkathi Islamia Secondary School. Her husband Ashish Majumdar is Inspector of Dashmina Upazila Public Health Engineering Office. They went to the office in the morning. The robbers broke into their apartment as well and took almost of 2 bhori gold ornaments, Tk 20,000 cash and other goods.
Ashish Majumdar said they were at work at the time of the incident. The robbers broke the door and looted their house. He claimed that the authorities should take strict measures regarding how the incident occurred.
Officer-in-Charge of Bauphal Police Station Shonit Kumar Gayen said on information, police visited the scene. There was no CCTV camera in that building. They are trying to identify the miscreants by using the CCTV footage from surrounding buildings, he added.
