Case filed over Narayanganj weapons haul

Police have filed a case against six people over arms recovery in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila. District Detective Branch (DB) police’s Inspector Mahmudul Islam filed the lawsuit with Rupganj police station early Sunday. The accused are- Sharif, 35, Shahin alias Sanu, 30, Rasel, 23, Shanto, 18, Murad and Hridoy Miah. Among them five are in police custody while Hridoy is on the run. “They have been charged with stocking illegal arms, tarnishing nation’s image and sedition,” Rupganj police OC Ismail Hossain told the Dhaka Tribune. Being tipped-off, police started drive for illegal arms in the area from Thursday midnight. They recovered 62 submachine guns, two rocket launchers, 44 magazines, five pistols, two walkie-talkies, 42 hand grenades and five sacks of bullets, detonators and bomb making materials till Friday noon and five more SMGs were found on Saturday. Police have resumed the search for more arms on the same spot on Sunday morning, the OC added. Law enforcers have kept the whole area cordoned off.