During a raid that started in late Sunday night and continued till Monday morning, RAB also arrested the mill owner's son, Abu Al-Imran Nahid, 28, for his alleged involvement in hording the OMS rice to sell them illegally in black market.
With the latest recovery in Bogra, lawenforcers have so far recovered a huge amount of OMS rice from Dhaka, Faridpur, Chittagong, Natore, Kishoreganj, Rangpur, Gopalganj, Barisal, Lakshmipur, Bagerhat, Gazipur, Joypurhat, Bogra and Sirajganj districts in the last 18 days.
Acting on a tip-off, a RAB contingent raided Soma Rice Mill in Telkupi area under Gabtoli Upazila while the mill was locked from outside and OMS rice was being transferred from sacks marked with the government seal into common sacks.
They said they arrested Nahid and seized 1,040 sacks, each weighing 50 kilograms, 224 sacks, each weighing 85 kilograms, of OMS rice and a good quantity of loose rice from inside the mill.
Bogra RAB camp commander Abdul Jalil told newsmen that they had seized a total of 71 tonnes of OMS rice worth around Tk 15.5 lakh.
The Gabtoli thana police officer in charge Abdur Rashid told New Age that the RAB members handed Nahid over to the thana and a mobile court led by the Upazila Nirbahi Officer Mirza Mohammad Ali Reza sentenced Nahid to suffer one year imprisonment for his involvement in illegally possessing the OMS rice.
The Mill was sealed in presence of the UNO on Monday morning and preparations were afoot to lodge a case with police in this connection, he added.
The government revived OMS of rice in the capital on December 26 last year in the wake of a continued rice price hike and later expanded the programme to all the cities, districts and Upazila towns down to the union level.
Source: New Age
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