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BAND-ROLL-SEIZURE (with picture)
4 held with fake Bidi band-roll in Rangpur
RANGPUR, Dec 3, 2019 (BSS) – Police arrested four persons with 7.70-
lakh pieces of fake Bidi band-roll worth about Taka 60-lakh from Bachachatari
village in Haragachh Thana of Rangpur Metropolitan Police (RpMP) of the
district on Monday night.
“On a tip off, a special operational team of Haragachh Thana of RpMP
raided the village and arrested three persons, including two women, with fake
Bidi band-roll from their respective houses,” a press release said tonight.
Later, as per confession of the arrested persons, police arrested
another person of their syndicated gang in Haragachh municipality area in
this connection.
The arrested persons are: Abdul Jalil alias Bang Jalil, 55, Golapi
Begum, 45, Sultana Begum, 30, and Mohammad Sama, 55.
During primary interrogation, the arrested persons admitted their
involvement in trading with fake Bidi band-roll in connivance with each-other
for a long time to assist the local Bidi Factories in evading huge government
revenue annually.
“Police filed a case in this connection with Haragachh Thana of RpMP and
produced them before a Rangpur court from where they were sent to jail hajat
after producing,” the release added.
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