Smuggled goods worth Tk 10 lakh seized

Members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) seized huge smuggled Indian goods worth about Tk 10 lakh and arrested three persons from Dinajpur, Joypurhat and Gaibandha districts in the last two days.
Official sources said a joint team of BDR and Rab challenged a Bogra-bound truck from frontier town of Hilli in Dinajpur at Charmatha Mour at Panchbibi in Joypurhat on Thursday night.
After searching the truck, the law enforcers seized huge smuggled clothes, including 446 pieces of three pieces and 909 metres clothes and arrested truck driver Rana Miah, 22, son of Dulu Mia of Baghopara area of Bogra town.
Meanwhile, Rab members arrested Abul Hossain alias Bimal Das, 36, son of Sadhu Das of village Narchi at Sariakandi in Bogra from Rajmoti Market at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha and seized 172 pieces of smuggled Indian sarees from his possession the same night.
In another raid, Rab arrested absconding warrantee Obaidul Islam, 27, son of Lutfar Rahman of village Moupukur at Birampur in Dinajpur from Birampur rail gate area yesterday morning.
After depositing the seized goods with Hilli customs authorities in Dinajpur, the law enforcers filed separate cases in these connections and handed over the arrestees to the respective police stations yesterday afternoon, the sources said.