OMS rice seized
Coastguard personnel Sunday morning seized a cargo with 150 sacks of rice meant for open market sale (OMS) and arrested a man in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat. Acting on a tip-off, a coastguard team from Mongla found the rice in MV Rana Reza and arrested Nazrul Islam Sharder, informed Lt Ziaul Haque, operation officer of Coastguard West Zone. The arrestee along with the rice was later handed over to Mongla police station. Arrestee Nazrul told police he bought the OMS rice from Alamgir Kabiraj, a resident of Bhandaria upazila in Pirojpur, and was taking it to Khulna to sell at regular market.
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