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Chittagong arms haul
 Mirpur police, conducting a lightning swoop, arrested Yakub Ali, son of Sher Ali, from a ground floor residence belonging to Gias Uddin at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station at about 4 am. Yakub, hailed from Purba Bagkhail village under Patia upazila of Chittagong district, went into hiding after ten trucks loaded with sophisticated arms and am munitions were seized from Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited (CUFL) jetty on April 2, last year. Recently, Chittagong police submitted a chargesheet, accusing four persons — Yakub Ali, Ataur Rahman, Akbar Ali and Hafijur Rahman — in the huge arms and ammunitions smuggling incident. In the police interrogation, Yakub Ali also pointed out that shortly after the arms seizure he had been staying at different parts of the capital city of Dhaka and industrial city of Khulna. Recently, he came from Khulna and started staying at the residence "Habib Monjil" at Lalkuthir under Mirpur police station, police said. Meanwhile, the police administration is yet to decide whether Yakub Ali would be sent to Chittagong police station or Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) for interrogation. "The law-enforcing agencies had been looking for Yakub for a long time," one police officer said. Posted by: Fred 2005-03-20 |
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