Dinajpur: Police in a drive arrested a man with 12 gold bars from Birampur upazila frontier area of the district today. The arrested person is Joydev Mahanta, 40, son of Giren Mahanta of Kanchanpur village under Adamdighi upazila in Bogura district.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, on a tip-off, a police team conducted a raid at Mukundapur Market of the upazila around 12.30 pm and arrested Joydev with the gold bars worth over Taka 1.39 crore, said M Momtazul Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Birampur police station this afternoon. A case was filed in this connection with the police station.