RAB seizes three shotguns 'left' at Mohammadpur Beribadh

Abandoned shotgun recovered in Noakhali

FE Team | Published: September 07, 2024 00:24:22

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has recovered three shotguns, 98 rounds of bullets and a belt owned by police, which were discarded at Mohammadpur's Beribadh, report agencies.
RAB-2 recovered the weapons around 8:30pm on Thursday and handed them over to Mohammadpur thana, the elite force said in a press statement.
The arms and ammunition recovered were part of the materials looted from different police stations in the capital on Aug 5, the statement said.
The weapons were recovered amid the ongoing drive against unauthorised arms based on a tip-off, RAB said in the statement.
The interim government had set a September 3 deadline to surrender the arms licensed during the rule of Sheikh Hasina. The law enforcers began a drive on Wednesday to recover those weapons yet to be turned over as well as those looted from police and other organisations.
Meanwhile,An abandoned shotgun was recovered by the law enforcers from a graveyard in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali district on Thursday night.
Former Member of Parliament Ekramul Karim Chowdhury was the owner of the shotgun that has not been submitted to the police station.
Police Super of Noakhali Mohammad Asaduzzaman said on information joint forces made of police, army and RAB conducted a raid in the graveyard close to Ekramul Karim Chowdhury's house at Shundolpur village at around 9.15 pm and found a plastic sack. Opening the sack they saw the licensed shotgun.
Former upazila Parishad Chairman Atahar Ishraque Shabab Chowdhury said his father was the owner of the shotgun that has not been submitted to Kabirhat thana in time as his father Ekramul Kabir Chowdhury was sick. The thana authority was informed about it, he added.
12 rounds of cartridges were recovered in the drive. A case is being processed to file.
The interim government asked the gun owners to submit their firearms and ammunition along with the suspended licenses to the relevant police stations within 3 September.