7 held with snake venom worth Tk460m
Saturday, 25 July 2015
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel have arrested 7 people along with 12 pounds of venom from a house at Raut village in Kanaighat upazila in Sylhet district. The arrestees were identified as Sifatur Rahman, 56, Nazrul Alam Nannu, 50, Abu Hasan, 62, Shahidul Islam, 34, Abdul Malik, 60, Wahid, 60, and Motial Acharjee, 60. They hail from different villages of Sylhet, Moulvibazar and Brahmanbaria districts. Tipped off, a Rab-9 team raided the house of Sifatur Rahman at Raut village and arrested the 7 people along with the venom of cobra on Friday afternoon. The elite force also recovered a revolver and four bullets from the house and seized a private car. The approximate price of the seized snake venom is about Tk460m (Tk46 crore), Rab-9 media officer Pankaj Kumar Dey said, according to a news agency.
-mbz