Two held with 50kg of black stones in Rangpur

A joint operational team comprising SRB-13 (Rangpur) and 51 BGB Battalion arrested two men with two pieces of black stone weighing 50 kilograms in total from the Purbo Bothlapara area of the city on Monday.

The arrestees were identified as Md Enamul Hossain, 60, of Purbo Bothlapara under Kotwali Police Station, and Md Mojibor Rahman, 57, of Karul Gutla area under Tajhat Police Station in Rangpur metropolitan area, according to an SRB-13 press release issued here this afternoon.

Acting on a tip-off, a joint team from the Headquarters Company of SRB-13 (Rangpur) and 51 BGB Battalion conducted a raid on a house in the Purbo Bothlapara area at around 2:30am on Monday.

During the operation, the joint team recovered two pieces of black stone weighing 50kg in total and arrested Enamul Hossain and Mojibor Rahman from the house.

Following the incident, the elite force filed a case against the two under the Special Powers Act, 1974, and handed over the seized stones and the arrested individuals to Rangpur Kotwali Police Station for further legal action.