20 air guns recovered

Our Correspondent, Benapole, Jessore
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) yesterday recovered 20 Indian air guns from Doulatpur border. BGB sources said, a team of boarder guards chased a gang of smugglers in the morning when they were entering into the country with the air guns from India. At one stage, the gang fled the scene leaving behind the arms. The seized arms, worth Tk. 7 lakh, were handed over to local police station. In another drive, the BGB men yesterday morning arrested a drug peddler, Jasim Uddin, along with 42 bottles of banned Indian phensidyl syrup and a motorbike from Putkhali Balurmath area.