Doctor held with human skeletons from India

A doctor was held with 10 human skeletons in Sirajganj on Thursday evening on his way to Dhaka from Rajshahi.
In a regular drive, a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12) halted a Dhaka bound coach of National Travels from Rajshahi, and recovered the skeletons from three black bags of Dr Tanvir Ahmed, a graduate from Sir Salimullah Medical College.
Police said Dr Tanvir, son of Sohrab Ali Talukder of Pallabi in the capital, works at a private hospital in the capital's Mirpur-14 area after passing his MBBS in 2011.
A case was filed with Bangabandhu Bridge West Police Station in Sirajganj on Thursday night.
Dulal Hossain, sub-inspector at the police station, who is also the investigation officer of the case, told The Daily Star that in preliminary interrogation Tanvir confessed that he was taking the skeletons from Rajshahi to Dhaka.
The skeletons were not assembled in the bags, the SI said.
Quoting the arrestee Dr Tanvir, Ashok Kumar Pal, assistant superintendent of Rab-12, said the skeletons were being taken to Dhaka for selling those to different private medical colleges and medical students.
Tanvir bought the skeletons with around Tk 20,000 each, and he would sell those for around Tk 40,000, he said.
The skeletons were smuggled from India, and Tanvir collected those with the help of a staff of Rajshahi Medical College, Ashok Kumar said.
Tanvir was involved in the human skeletons business since his student life, he added.
Sources at Dhaka Medical College said human skeletons are smuggled in from India due lack of adequate supply of skeletons in the country.