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Pickup van driver held with foreign liquor worth Tk 17 lakh in Ctg
Pickup van driver held with foreign liquor worth Tk 17 lakh in Ctg
Chattogram, June 29 - Chattogram Police arrested a pickup van driver with 190 bottles of foreign liquor worth Tk 17 lakh, that were unloaded from different vessels at Chittagong Port. The arrest took place in Anwara upazila of Chattogram early Saturday.
The arrestee is Amir Hossain, 19, son of Kamal Uddin of Matiranga in Khagrachhari.
Anwara police station’s Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sohel Ahmed said, being tipped-off, a police team conducted a drive in Gobadia area of Barshat union under the upazila in the early morning and recovered the liquor from the pickup van driven by the arrestee.
The OC said, police are working with the assumption that the consignment was being transported to the city's peddlers for sale illegally.
Amir landed in jail after being hauled in front of a judge in a Chattogram court, the police officer confirmed.-UNB