The cell numbers of three folk, who’re peaceable missing three days after a speedboat collided with a sand-carrying bulkhead and sank in Barishal’s Kirtankhola River, are reportedly being outmoded to query money from their relatives.
Police possess initiated an investigation to search out the folk at the lend a hand of these cell phone calls, said Sanatan Chandra Sarker, officer-in-impress (OC) of Sadar river police, as of late (7 December).
“The cell numbers outmoded to plan demands had been active till 2:53pm on the day of the accident [5 December],” he said.
Pointing out that none of the cell telephones had been recovered but, Sanatan said authorities are investigating the skills outmoded to plan such calls.
The three missing folk are the speedboat’s driver Al Amin, Russell Amin, 25, and Sajal Das, 30.
Sajal’s relatives said a call was product of his cell number to his mother’s cell phone, annoying Tk25,000.
His uncle Shankar Das said the family filed a Fashioned Diary (GD) over the topic at Kotwali Mannequin Police Space.
“These folk are additionally making identical demands for money from the relatives Al Amin and Russell,” he said.
Confirming the submitting of the GD to The Alternate Fashioned, Kotwali police OC Mizanur Rahman said, “We imagine the cell phone numbers had been cloned.”
On 5 December, the Barishal-sure speedboat with not lower than 10 folk onboard capsized after colliding with the sand-carrying bulkhead. Whereas seven passengers managed to swim ashore, different four, together with the speedboat driver, firstly remained missing.
The physique of 1 in all the missing passengers, identified as Jalis Mahmud, was recovered from the river several hours after the accident that night.
River police decent Sanatan said the driver of the bulkhead, Khalek Majhi, has been arrested.
He said Sub-Inspector Omar Faruk of the river police filed a case the same day, naming both the speedboat and bulkhead drivers and three unidentified others as accused.
