The police have recovered 995 bullets from Bankakurha cluster village in Jhenaigati upazila in less than five months into the seizure of a huge cache of ammunition from the same village.
Police superintendent Mohammed Anisur Rahman said Ashraful Islam, 26, of Dupuria village, had been arrested in connection with the latest recovery of ammunition from the house of Mohammad Ali, alias Ali Chora, 30, of Bankakurha on Monday morning.
He said Ali had been arrested from the Sherpur district headquarters on Sunday and the drive in his house had been conducted based on his statement to the police.
Islam was arrested following Ali's information after the recovery of the bullets, he added.
A joint team of the Jhenaigati police and a detective unit, led by assistant police superintendent (circle) Mohammed Salah Uddin Shikder, conducted the drive around 6:00am.
'The joint team recovered the 995 bullets of rifles, wrapped in a polythene sack, from a hole in the house,' Rahman said.
Detective Branch's assistant sub-inspector Sajib Khan filed an arms case with the Jhenaigati police station.
Jhenaigati police officer Abdur Rob Pradhan said Ali was accused in eight cases, including one for robbery.
Ali told reporters at the police station that he had been unaware of the ammunition.
Earlier on December 18 last year, 13,680 rounds of sub-machine gun bullets were recovered from an abandoned house at Bankakurha.
Border Guard Bangladesh had claimed that the ammunition belonged to Indian outlawed separatist group United Liberation Front of Assam.
Source: New Age
