National Security Intelligence and Customs Intelligence Authority have detained a Sharjah-bound passenger with over 2.5 lakh Dirham at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Saturday. The detainee was Mohammad Ali, of Satkania upazila in the district. Read: APBn detains man with gold worth Tk 69 lakh at Dhaka Airport He was supposed to fly to Sharjah of the United Arab Emirates by an Air Arabia aircraft in the morning. Bashir Ahmed, additional director general of customs intelligence and investigation authority, said a team of the NSI and Customs Intelligence jointly conducted a drive at the airport around 6.30am. Mohammad Ali was detained with foreign currency worth over Tk 73 lakh during the drive; he said adding that the detainee visited several countries six times in the current year. Read: Air passenger detained with 110 cartons of foreign cigarettes in Ctg During primary interrogation, the detainee confessed to his involvement in money launderingr, the customs officer said. A case will be filed against him at the Patenga police station in this connection, he added.

A man was detained on Friday night for assaulting a girl forwearing western attire at  Narsingdi Railway Station two days ago. The detainee was identified as Ismail Hossain, 25. A three-member team from Narsingdi District Administration identified Ismail from CCTV footage of the incident on Friday afternoon and later detained him from near the station area, said ATM Musa, station master of the railway station. “Narsingdi Detective Branch of police has detained a man for involvement with the incident but we could not show him as arrested as no one lodged any complaint yet,” said Ferdous Ahmed Biswas, OC of Narsingdi railway police station. On Wednesday, a woman at the Narsingdi Railway Station made distasteful comments at the young girl and two boys with hrt who were waiting at the station for a train with other passengers around 5:30 pm. The girl was wearing a crop-top and jeans and the boys were also wearing western outfits. At one point the woman locked in an altercation with them and some local miscreants started beating the youths and harassed the girl, said the station master. “The girl had to take shelter in the station master’s office room to save herself . The matter was resolved later with my intervention,” said ATM Musa. The matter sparked debates among netizens after video footage of the incident went viral on social media and several news media published reports on it.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a youth with 63kg hemp in Faridpur Friday night.  The arrestee was identified as Ripan Ali, 28, a resident of Baradi village of Meherpur.  Rab also seized a truck, three mobile phones, and four SIM cards from his possession.      Also Read: Drug peddlers held with 32kg hemp According to a press release, the elite force led by deputy assistant director Rafiqul Islam of Rab-8, Faridpur camp, detained the shipment of hemp by setting up a check post in front of Karimpur Highway Police Camp on Magura-Faridpur highway.  Ripan Ali, later was handed over to police and a narcotic case was filed with Kotwali police station, added the Rab official.  

Customs officials detained a 28-year-old man at Shah Amanat International Airport on Tuesday for allegedly attempting to smuggle in gold worth Tk 2.40 crore. Acting on a tip-off, a Customs team intercepted Mohammad Sohel at the airport upon his arrival from Dubai this morning. Read: 2 held with gold worth over Tk 2cr in separate drives at Dhaka airport "Subsequent frisking led to the seizure of 26 gold bars and other gold items weighing 4.1 kg," said Wing Commander Farhad Hossain Khan, the top airport official. Deputy commissioner of Airport Customs, Sumon Chakma said that the seized items included 26 gold bars, six molten gold leaf, three gold hunch, five bracelets and a gold necklace. Read: 'Rohingya' man held with 33 gold bars in Cox's Bazar "The detainee is being interrogated," he said.

Police in a drive arrested a man for attempting to rape a minor girl from Bonbelgharia in Sadar upazila on Thursday night.