PABNA, Apr 22: Pabna District Detective Branch (DB) of Police arrested four people with a foreign pistol and a shotgun, 62 rounds of bullets, two magazines and 5 rounds of cartridges, 4,050 peach yaba tablets, and 80 (eighty) grams of heroin in separate raids.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Md. Mortoza Ali Khan gave this information at a press conference at the SP office at 5:30 pm on Monday.
He told reporters that the Detective Branch (DB) police conducted separate raids in the Kashipur Bazar area of Hemayetpur Union of Pabna Sadar Upazila on Monday night. During this, drug dealer Md. Zahid Hasan Rana, 33, was arrested along with 50 pieces of yaba. He is a resident of the Doharpara area of Sadar Upazila, and DB police arrested two people with two firearms during a raid at a tin shed house in Malitha Para, Hemayetpur.
The arrested are Sajjad Hossain (26) and Md. Abdul Rana (49). A working 7.65 foreign pistol, two magazines, 13 rounds of bullets, 49 rounds of 22 bore live bullets, 4,000 pieces of yaba and 80 grams of heroin were recovered in the raid.
In addition, Md. Russell Hossain, 45, was arrested in another raid in Moharpur Village of Gayeshpur Union of Sadar Upazila at noon. A Turkish-made 12-bore shotgun and five rounds of shotgun bullets hidden under the bed of his house were recovered.
