government programme
2 held with 25 sacks of rice in Joypurhat
Police in a drive arrested two people along with 25 sacks of rice meant for sale to the poor at Tk 10 per kg under a government programme from a house at Nimtoli in Khetlal upazila on Saturday midnight.
The arrestees are Tota, son of Tozammel Hossain and Abdul Majid, son of Taslim Uddin of the upazila.
Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive at the house of Tota and seized the rice sacks, weighing 50 kg each, from the house around 12 pm, said ASM Siddiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khetlal Police Station.
Later, police arrestedTota and his associate Abdul Majid in this connection.
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