PABNA, Feb 12: A team of the District Detective Branch (DB) has arrested three people with a large quantity of firearms and bullets in two separate raids in Ishwardi Upazila of Pabna.
Superintendent of Police Anwar Zahid confirmed the matter at a press conference at the Pabna Superintendent's office on Wednesday afternoon.
The Superintendent of Police said that as part of a special operation to catch criminals ahead of the elections, on Tuesday night, the district police arrested Shahin, 20, son of Kamal, of Kathalia Chingrakhali Village in Jhalakati District, and Hazrat Pramanik, 47, of Diyar Baghil Village, from inside and outside a tin store room adjacent to the guest house of the WASA project adjacent to the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project, based on secret information.
At that time, a foreign semi-automatic self-loaded rifle (SLR loaded magazine with 67 rounds of fresh cartridges), a foreign 22-bore rifle with magazine and fresh cartridges, and a single-barrel gun with a wooden butt were recovered from them.
On the same night, a separate operation was conducted in Maniknagar Paschimpara of Ishwardi Upazila and a person named Mominul Islam Khokon, 33, son of Badsha Mia, was arrested. At that time, a working 9mm pistol, 6 rounds of cartridges, a working 7.65mm pistol, 10 rounds of cartridges and 31 rounds of 12 bore fresh cartridges were recovered from inside an abandoned water tank.
Two separate cases have been filed in this incident. The detainees have been sent to jail by the court.
