Over 3kg gold recovered

9 December 2009, 17:00 PM

Our Correspondent, Dinajpur

More than three kilograms of gold bar worth over Tk. 1.2cr was recovered yesterday morning from a Panchbibi border point of Joypurhat district. BDR of Joypurhat arrested three people and seized a private car in this connection.The arrestees were identified as Md Abul Hossain, 50, and Ahmad Ali, sons of late Chhahir Uddin of village Damdama under Panchbibi upazila and Shamsuddin, 85, son of late Tasir Munshi of village Fiskaghat of same upazila. The arrestees informed the BDR that they had been using the border point of the district for gold smuggling for long. Lt Col Rakibul Haq of Joypurhat Battalion 3 said a patrol team of BDR, acting on secret information, searched the private car at Puranpoil on Joypurhat-Panchbibi bypass road and recovered 3.091 kilogram of gold bars.