UNB, Dhaka
Detective Branch (DB) police seized huge quantity of fake electric cables worth about Tk 600,000 from two unauthorised factories at Shyampur in the city yesterday.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of plainclothes police raided the house of Hashmat Ullah at Bat Tola in East Shyampur at about 2:30 am. They arrested Aynal Hossain, 28, Mehedi Hasan, 25, Shahidul Islam, 25, and Mohammad Sohel alias Sony, 20, from two rooms of the house-one used to make spurious BRB cables and another Eastern cables. [Read more]