25 armed dacoits enter PWD Contractor and former GP President's house in Udharbond; loot 15 lakh cash, 25 vori gold

Another case of burglary in Cachar district. 20 armed men allegedly entered the house of Anamul Haque Laskar in Udharbond’s Pangram area. Anamul Haque Laskar locally popular as ‘Anam – Panchayat’ was the GP President of Pangram GP for 10 years. After the seat got reserved and his sister became the president.

Apart from being a politician, Laskar is also a renowned PWD-Contractor. Late in the night at around 1:00 am today, the dacoits entered his house by breaking the door.

“Initially, they identified themselves as police officials,” said Laskar. He added, “They questioned if I have arms kept in my house. However, soon they got to the point. One of them, speaking Sylheti as local do, asked me to hand over the cash I had withdrawn from the bank. I replied to them saying that I have already spent that money by paying wages to labourers working in three different construction sites.”

The dacoits ran havoc in Anamul Haque Laskar’s house and according to him even assaulted him and his family. “They fired bullets on the floor to scare me. That is when I told them that I have some cash kept in the locker and they can take it. But they did end there, the group of armed dacoits went to the other unit of my house and took more cash from there. They also looted the gold that my wife, sisters owned,” informed Anamul Haque Laskar.

According to his estimate, the dacoits looted Rs 15 lakh cash and 25 vori gold worth Rs 13 lakh approximately. They also snatched all the seven mobile phones that the residents owned.

Additional SP of Cachar, Jagadish Das rushed to the spot after getting the information about the burglary. He said the Police will investigate the matter and identify the dacoits.

Anamul Haque Laskar said that he had around Rs. 2.7 lakh in a box kept in the wardrobe. “That money was given to me by the mosque to keep. They had locked the box and said will take it back from me when they start construction work. I requested the dacoits to leave that box as that belongs to the mosque, they did not. That is how ruthless they were,” said Laskar.