Hundi trade: 2 held in city

The Detective Branch of the DMP yesterday arrested two persons and seized Tk 114,000 in cash, a cheque worth Tk 30 lakh and documents allegedly showing their involvement in 'hundi' business or money-laundering from a house at Ahsanullah Road, Nawab Bari area in Islampur on Thursday.

A DMP press release said yesterday that a case has been filed against the arrested persons Abdur Razzak, 67, and Faiz Hossain Chanchal, 28, with Kotwali thana.

Sutrapur thana police arrested Rafiqul Islam Mamun, 22, and Alamgir Hossain, 22, allegedly with a home-made pistol loaded with a 303 rifle bullet yesterday morning from an under-construction house at RK Mission Road. Police described them as snatchers. A case has been filed in this connection.

Lalbagh police arrested an alleged extortionist, Sabu, from Debidas Ghat area on Thursday and later recovered a foreign-made revolver with three rounds of bullets from his residence on the basis of his 'confession', said a press release of the DMP yesterday.