Four Bangladeshi men held after armed robbery attempt in Meghalaya

Four members of a nine-member Bangladeshi gang were caught after an armed robbery attempt in Meghalaya’s South West Khasi Hills district early on Saturday (August 9, 2025).

Police said the gang members, armed with pistols and sharp weapons, forced their way into a shop at Rongdangai, a village in the district bordering Bangladesh. The miscreants allegedly threatened one Balsrang A. Marak, who was sleeping inside, at gunpoint and demanded the phone number of the shop owner.

The man escaped from their clutches after they tried to abduct him and ran to his house. The Bangladeshi men chased him and fired a few rounds at his house.

“The miscreants thrashed the man after the panic-struck members of his family opened the door,” a police officer said.

At around 2.15 a.m., a resident of the adjoining Khonjoy village informed the police that some armed men were approaching his house. The miscreants fled under the cover of darkness as soon as a police team reached the site.

“Our team recovered an axe, a screwdriver, and an identity card of a Bangladeshi police constable,” the officer said.

Awakened by the commotion, the villagers caught one of the miscreants and handed him over to the police. He was identified as one Mansur Akhtar of Bangladesh.

Later, a joint team of the police and the Border Security Force apprehended three more Bangladeshi miscreants from a jungle along the India-Bangladesh border. The police said efforts were on to apprehend the remaining five members of the gang.

The injured man was sent to a local health centre for a medical check-up, the police added.