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2 gold traders on 5-day remand
CHATTOGRAM, March 4, 2019, (BSS)- A Chattogram court today placed two gold
traders– Rakib Islam and Karim Khan Kalu– on a five-day remand in a case
filed over 600 pieces of gold bars recovery from Zorargonj thana of the
district yesterday.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Shahidullah Kaiser passed the order following a
hearing on the remand petition, District Court Inspector Bijon Kumar Barua
told BSS.
The court granted five-day remand each when the investigating officer
prayed for 10 days remand, he added.
Earlier, members of Chattogram district police in a drive arrested the duo
with the gold bars worth about Taka 27 crore from Sonapahar area of Zorargonj
thana.
Moshidullah Reza, additional superintendent of police of Chattogram
district north, said based on secret information a team of the district
police recovered the gold bars, weighing 58-kg, from a Dhaka-bound private
car at city’s Reazuddin Bazar in Sonapahar area of the thana on Sunday
evening.
Police detained the private car with the gold bars and a case was filed
with the Zorargonj thana in this connection.
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