150 urea bags seized, 6 held in Ashuganj
Ashuganj police seized 150 sacks of urea fertilizer from Meghana River and 360 sets of Indian sarees at Ashuganj Toll Plaza on Thursday and yesterday and arrested seven people in this connection.
A police team led by Ratan Kumar Das Gupta, officer-in-charge (OC) of Ashuganj Police Station, recovered 150 sacks of urea fertiliser from a cargo boat on Meghna River near Sunarampur village under Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria district on Thursday.
They recovered 150 bags of fertiliser weighing about seven tonnes from a cargo boat that was going to Muradpur village under Baniachang upazila of Habiganj district from Brahmanbaria, arrested six people and seized the trawler, the OC said.
The arrestees -- Md Tauch Mia, 35, Anu Mia, 50, Batchu Mia, 30, Numan Mia, 35, Aiub Mia, 40, and Bachchu Mia, 25 -- told police that they are boatmen of the cargo boat that was hired by an unnamed dealer who ordered them to carry the fertiliser to Muradpur village.
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