SYLHET, Oct 4: Jalalabad thana police in Sylhet recovered a mortar shell and held its bearer from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) campus on Sunday afternoon.
The arrested person was identified as Sekul Mia, 32, son of Inu Mia, hailed from Madan upazila under Netrakona district and lived at Jugipara in the city adjacent to the SUST campus.
Police and witnesses said Sekul was looking for a buyer to sell the shell thinking that the item was a precious metal. Having found this, witnesses informed the police who later rushed to the spot and nabbed him along with the shell around 12:00pm on SUST campus.