One held with stolen cumin of Tk46 lakh

Abul Baker, 30, of Shahrasti in Chandpur, was a truck helper, said Bandar police station’s Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Atiqur Rahman. One MS Traders had imported around 4,000 bags of cumin from Turkey ahead of Eid-ul-Azha. While, five trucks were carrying the bags to a warehouse in the port city’s Majirghat area on Thursday, driver of one of the trucks Nizam Uddin and his helper Baker, went missing with their truck carrying 400 bags containing around 10,000 kilograms of cumin, said the SI. The truck was found abandoned beside a road in the city’s Barek Building area on Friday morning after the importer lodged a case in this connection with the police station, he said. Later, the police traced out Baker and arrested him from the city’s New Mooring area under EPZ police station along with 369 cumin bags, added Atiqur. Nizam and the transport agent are on the run, said the SI.