Sharp weapons, contraband phensedyl and liquor seized from shops run by seven-murder prime suspect Nur
Police have seized handmade weapons and huge drugs from five shops owned by Narayanganj city councilor Nur Hossain, the main accused in seven murders.
Narayanganj police’s Special Branch Inspector Moinur Rahman said the raid at the business establishments near Shimrail truck stand at Siddhirganj in the district was conducted from around 4pm to 5:30pm.
Hossain is the councilor of Narayanganj City Corporation’s ward number 4, vice-president of Siddhirganj Thana unit of the ruling Awami League and president of Siddhirganj unit of Inter-district Truck Drivers’ Union.
Local said he used to virtually rule Shimrail truck stand area.
Police said they seized two machetes, three choppers, huge numbers of bamboo sticks, around 3,000 bottles of contraband Phensidyl cough syrup, nine bottles of foreign liquor and 37 beer cans from his shops.
Narayanganj’s Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Md Zakaria led the drive. District police officers including SP Jibon Kanti Sarker were present.
Zakaria told reporters during the drive that Hossain had rented the shops from one Shamsuddin.
Seven people, including Narayanganj City councillor Nazrul Islam and senior lawyer Chandan Kumar Sarker, were abducted in Narayanganj on April 27.
Their bodies were retrieved from the Shitalakhyya River over two days.
On May 6, Narayanganj district administration evicted more than 50 establishments erected illegally by Hossain, his brother Nuruzzaman Joj Mia and his other cohorts at Kanchpur on the bank of the Shitalakhyya.
Locals said drugs used to be sold from the makeshift shops from morning to midnight under the cover of sand and stone business.
They said the place would be used as wholesale drugs market where peddlers from across the country would converge.
The law-enforcing agencies did not take any action against the illegal acts though media published reports on them on several occasions.
There are allegations that members of security agencies used to receive bribes from Hossain to let him continue with the trade.
Source: Bd news24
