One held as 125 sacks of subsidized rice recovered in Dinajpur

Police today recovered 125 sacks of rice allocated under the government's Food-Friendly Programme from a warehouse in Ghoraghat upazila of the district and arrested a man in connection with the incident.

The arrested person is Md Nurul Islam, 65, son of Nazim Uddin of Kalup para village in Ghoraghat upazila.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Ghoraghat Police Station Inspector Md Mahmudul Hasan confirmed the matter this afternoon.

He said police conducted a drive at Nurul Islam's house in the Bulakipur Union Parishad area this morning following a tip-off and recovered 125 sacks of Food-Friendly Programme rice, each weighing 30 kilograms, which had allegedly been stored illegally in a warehouse there.

The seized rice was later taken to the police station, and Nurul Islam was arrested in connection with the incident.

A case was filed at Ghoraghat Police Station in this connection against Nurul Islam and his associates.