62 smuggled handsets seized

Influentials illegally cutting hills at Fatikchhari . This picture was taken on Saturday.
Influentials illegally cutting hills at Fatikchhari . This picture was taken on Saturday.
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UNB, Chattogram :
62 smuggled handsets seized in Ctg The Detective Branch of police arrested a young man Md Arman 62 smuggled handsets from Station Road of Chattogram on Saturday. -UNB
The Detective Branch of police arrested a young man reportedly along with 62 smuggled handsets from Station Road of the city on Saturday afternoon. The arrestee is Md Arman, 28, son of Md Nurul Islam of Lohagara upazila.
Md Mizanur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, said on secret information, a team of DB (North) raided the area and arrested Arman along with the 62 mobile phone sets.
Arman used to collect the smuggled handsets from different parts of the country, including the capital, and sell those here, he said, adding that a case was filed against him with Kotwali Police Station.
Illegal timbers seized : The officials of forest department (FD) in Chattogram during a drive seized 933 Cubic feet (CFT) tick timber worth around Taka 14 lakh from Lalbed area under Sitakunda upazila of the district on Monday.
The forest personnel also seized a covered van that carried the timber, the sources said. Based on secret information, a special team of the forest department in a drive in the aforesaid area seized 933 CFT tick timber at around 6:00am, FD sources said.
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