Staff Reporter :
Border Guard Bangladesh on Friday arrested a government primary school teacher and her daughter from the local office of a courier service in Jashore district and recovered 184kg of Bangladeshi coins.
The arrested have been identified as Mosammat Sultana Parvin, teacher of a primary school under Kotwali Police Station in Jashore district and Sumaiya Sultana, her daughter and Class XI student of Jashore Cantonment College.
Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Hoque, Commanding Officer, 49 Border Guard Battalion, said, the BGB men led by Faruk Hossain, Assistant Director, 49 Border Guard Battalion, raided the US-Bangla Courier office in New Market area of Jashore town and seized coins of Tk 1, 2 and 5 denominations weighing 184 kilogram.
Billal Hossain, husband of the said school teacher, said that he works in the field of event management and is now working in Joypurhat for arranging village fairs.
He got the coins from the organisers of the fairs as payment for arranging the programmes several times.
“I sent the coins for use of my family by a courier service,” he said.
“I also wanted to show the document of the payments to the BGB. But they paid no heed to those and detained my daughter and her mother,” he added.
The BGB Commanding Officer said that having learnt of the smuggling attempt of the coins to India, the BGB men carried out the raid.
‘The court will decide whether they are innocent or not,’ he said.
Jashore Deputy Commissioner Abdul Awal refused to make any comment without knowing the matter.
The duo was handed over to the Kotwali police along with the coins.
