Police have arrested a person along with a homemade Light Gun (LG) and one round of cartridge from Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong.
The arrestee was Mainul Ahsan Rinu, 30, son of Hazi Shahjahan Bhuiyan of Masjidia union of Mirsarai upazila, said police sources.
Mirsarai OC Imtiaj Bhuiyan of police station said acting on a tip-off a team of police raided Mainul house at Masjidia union and recovered a homemade LG from the commode of the toilet at around 2:30pm on Wednesday and held the youth.
Later, police recovered the cartridge under the bed in his bedroom, said the OC.
A case was booked with Mirsarai police station in this connection.
Meanwhile Bakalia police in Chittagong city recovered around 700 grams of explosive materials from an herbal medicine store in the city’s Double Mooring area.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammed Mohsin of the police station said acting on secret information police conducted a drive at one Prakash Kanti Nath’s herbal medicine store at Pahartali Bazar and recovered the explosives.
“Prakash Kanti Nath had been supplying the explosive to the bomb makers behind the herbal business to carry out subversive activities in the city while he was arrested along with his two other cohorts on Tuesday night”, said the OC.