Two arrested with 40,500 firecrackers
Police arrested two persons and seized some 40,000 sound-based and 500 aerial firecrackers from their possession in front of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University's second gate in the capital yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Md Saiful Islam, 30, and Md Anwar Hossain, 42, with a covered van around 12:00 noon.
The firecrackers, found stuffed in cartons in the van, were smuggled in from India as those are banned in the country and were supposed to be delivered to Old Dhaka claimed police.
Saiful told journalists that a man paid him to deliver the cartons, which he was told contained imported women's clothing, from a warehouse in Shah-Ali area of Mirpur.
A case was filed with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in this connection.
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