Woman held with pistol, ammo in Ctg

Officials of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a woman and seized a foreign pistol and seven bullets from her residence in Chittagong city’s Bakalia area on early Wednesday. Roksana, 25, is wife of Nasir Uddin, a professional motorbike lifter, said CID’s Special Superintendent of Police Abdur Rahman Khan. A team of CID went their flat to recover a stolen motorcycle and arrested Nasir in the midnight, he said. Roksana resisted the CID personnel to enter the flat, monitored by seven CCTV cameras, on the ground floor of a five-storey building in Asrafia Housing Society. The law enforcers recovered the pistol, ammunition and a magazine searching the flat and detained the woman, said Abdur Rahman. There were at least 18 cases against Nasir filed with different police stations in Chittagong on charge of lifting motorbike, said the CID sources. Earlier, a motorbike of a CID member was stolen from the city’s Khulshi area on August 19. CID members found the involvement of Nasir in the theft during their investigation.