Missing statue recovered

A two-kg touchstone statue which went missing from the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) museum in Pilkhana during the carnage on February 25-26 in 2009 was recovered from a store in the city's Hatirpool on Saturday.
Abu Taher, owner of the store, “Taher Enterprise”, and Mahiuddin Ahmed, a retired havildar of the then BDR, currently Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), were also arrested by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel during the recovery.
“We are sure that the statue was looted from the then BDR museum during the carnage,” said Rab-2 Commanding Officer Kamal Hossain, adding that Mahiuddin is associated with antiques smugglers.
He, however, could not identify whether the statue represented a god. Neither could he mention its age.
Kamal, also the additional deputy inspector general of police, said acting on a tip-off, they raided the store and made the arrests. “Both the arrestees and statue were handed over to Shahbagh police.”
OC of Shahbagh Police Station Shirajul Islam said member of Border Guard Security Unit, BGB's intelligence wing, nayek Alamgir Hossain filed a case in this connection and the arrestees would be produced before the court today.