600 fertiliser bags seized in Kushtia
Police Friday night seized 600 sacks of fertiliser from two trucks here and arrested the drivers in this connection.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team searched a Bogra-bound truck at
Chourash bus stand and recovered 300 sacks of fertilizer from there.
On questioning, the driver and the helper of the truck asked police to search another truck at Mazampur. Accordingly, police searched the bus at about 7.30:pm
and recovered more 300 sacks of fertilizer from the bus.
Police said both the trucks were coming from Jessore and proceeding towards Bogra.
Unscrupulous fertiliser traders allegedly purchased the fertilizer in black markets and were transporting those to Bogra from Jessore.
They arrested drivers are Tara Mia, 45, of Chandu Stadium area in Bogra and Sekandar Ali, 37, of Kasimpur area in Jessore.
Police are yet to find out the actual owner of the fertiliser.
The arrested were being interrogated at Sadar police station till filing of the report yesterday afternoon.
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