The Special Response Battalion (SRB-1) has arrested a man named Mintu Chandra Sutradhar after seizing around 765 bottles of foreign liquor from two rooms on the seventh floor of a building in Gulshan, Dhaka. The estimated market value of the seized liquor is Tk 61 lakh.
Shah Alam, additional superintendent of police (media) of SRB-1, confirmed the information on Tuesday (September 29).
He said Mintu Chandra Sutradhar was arrested during a raid at the seventh floor of the NCC Bank building in the Gulshan-1 Circle area on Monday (September 28) night.
According to Shah Alam, the operation was conducted based on confidential information in the area of House No. 51 on Gulshan Avenue. During the operation, three to four people, including Mintu, allegedly attempted to flee. Mintu was later arrested.
He said Mintu told investigators that he and the other individuals who fled had stored the foreign liquor in collusion with one another for the purpose of selling it.
Based on information provided by Mintu, 765 bottles of foreign liquor of different brands were recovered from two rooms on the seventh floor of the building.
A mobile phone allegedly used for drug-related transactions and Tk 2,000 in sales proceeds were also seized during the operation.
A team from the Gulshan Circle of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), led by Inspector Md Imdadul Haque, was present during the operation.
SRB said the process of handing over the arrested person and the seized liquor to Gulshan Police Station is underway.
