5 held with arms, liquor

Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans arrested five people with firearms and Indian liquor along Naokuchi border in Jhinaigati upazila on Tuesday night. A BDR team of 45 Rifles Battalion halted a private car and a motorbike in the border area at about 8:00pm and recovered 11 bottles of Indian liquor and a loaded pistol. They also arrested Shyamol Chandra Shaha, 38, engineer Lokhman Ali, 50, Abdul Halim, 50, Nur Alam Chowdhury, 40, and Alamgir Hossain, 40, in this connection. Two cases were filed against the arrested persons with local police station. They were produced before a judicial magistrate court yesterday noon. The court sent them to jail after hearing.