Street boy in crime

A large number of street boys in Dhaka city and nine sub-district of the district have got involved in different types of crime as criminals use them as convenient accomplices.

Poverty and wayward life of their parents, loss of shelters due to natural calamities, drug addiction, bigamy or polygamy of parents and missing during journey from one place to another are among the factors that are responsible for a large number of street boys' get involved in crimes, says the report.

Many of these hapless street boys are being picked up by criminals for keeping arms, throwing bombs at targets, selling drugs and pilferage of food grains for small amount of money, the project manager quoted the survey report as saying.