Suspected arms dealer held with arms in city
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a suspected arms dealer at Phulbaria Nagar plaza under Kotwali Police Station in the city yesterday.
Rab officials said they recovered a foreign-made pistol, four pistol magazines and two bullets of pistol from their possession.
Acting on a tip-off, members of RAB-1 arrested Mohammad Abdul Matin, 48, at about 2:00pm and recovered the arms from inside garments in front of a shop.
Matin, a resident of Jigatala Government Colony in Dhanmondi, has confessed to the crime during the interrogation, saying he has long been engaged in supplying arms to criminals in different parts of the city, Rab said.
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