Touchstone statues seized

20 October 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Gaibandha

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Monday night recovered two touchstone statues of “Lord Vishnu” and “Shiva” from Basudevpur village in Palashbari upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-1 from Dhaka raided the village and recovered the 120-kg Shiva Lingam from the house of one Shamsul Alam and the Vishnu statue weighing around 14 kg from the house of Al Amin. The team arrested Shamsul Alam, Al Amin, Abdul Mannan and Angur for possessing the statues and handed them over to Palashbari police. The arrestees told police that a smuggler of Bogra district brought the statues to the village about a month ago. The price of the statues was estimated at Tk 6.5 crore.