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Smuggled wheat seized

16 November 2009, 17:00 PM

NATIONAL

UNB, Chandpur

Coastguards seized 250 sacks of smuggled wheat from two cargo vessels and held four people at Dularchar in the Meghna River under Model police station on Sunday. The arrestees are Akhter, Saiful Islam, Swapan and Ripon. Acting on a tip-off, a coastguard team raided the two vessels and recovered the wheat weighing 600 maunds in the morning. In another operation, 35 maunds of 'jatka' (hilsa fry) were seized and nine people held from an engine-driven boat in the same river early Sunday.