Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested an alleged smuggler with a touchstone statue from Rasulpur village in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat district yesterday.
The arrested was identified as Nurul Amin, 50, of the same village.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted a raid in the area around 3.30 pm and arrested him with the statue weighting around 71 kilograms worth about Tk2.84 crore from his possession.
The sources said the seized statue was supposed to be smuggled out to a neighbouring country.