Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has announced bounties for information leading to the recovery of firearms looted after August 5 last year, aiming to retrieve all missing arms before the 13th parliamentary election scheduled for February next year.
"We're offering Tk 5 lakh for information that helps recover one LMG and Tk 1.5 lakh for one SMG," he said.
The announcement came on Monday after the core committee meeting on law and order at the Home Ministry in the Bangladesh Secretariat.
He also stated that Tk 50,000 will be given for the recovery of one pistol or one shotgun, and Tk 500 for information leading to the recovery of a single looted bullet.
According to Police Headquarters, 5,750 firearms and 651,609 rounds of ammunition were looted from various police stations, outposts, and other installations following the fall of the Awami League government during the July Mass Uprising.
The looted items included rifles, submachine guns (SMGs), light machine guns (LMGs), pistols, shotguns, gas guns, tear gas launchers, tear gas shells, tear gas sprays, sound grenades, and bullets.
A nationwide joint operation to recover the looted firearms and ammunition began on September 4 last year. The Home Adviser previously stated that around 700 firearms are still missing.
