Touchstone statue seized

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday recovered a touchstone statue of Hindu goddess Swaraswati from a passenger bus. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-12 led by its deputy assistant director Hafiz Uddin raided a Dhaka-bound passenger bus coming from Pabna at the eastern end of Jamuna bridge and recovered the statue weighing about 2.5kg. The statue was found in a jute sack in an abandoned state. The touchstone statute is worth around Tk 2.5 crore, Rab officials said.