Fruitless drive at Natore suspected militant dens

Natore Correspondent: Police conducted a drive at two houses at Harishpur area in Sadar upazila of the town on Thursday on suspicion of militant hideouts, but found nothing after the drive.

Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Natore district circle Abu Hasnat said no militant or explosive was found in the two houses during the drive.

On information, a team of Natore and Bogra police jointly cordoned off a three-storey building, ‘Nargis Garden’, owned by retired joint secretary Amzad Hossain, and another house owned by Abdul Hye Molla near District Police Lines around 9:00am, said Mizanur Rahman, an inspector of Bogra DB police.

Locals said Arif Hossain, a medical representative, rented the ground floor of the three-storey Nargis Garden but they did not know who were residing in the flat.

Meanwhile, police requested the house inmates to come out but to no avail.

Later, police entered the ground floor of the building around 1:15pm but found neither any militant nor any explosive.

Meanwhile, police arrested a warranted criminal named Kismat Ali, 38, from the house, said the ASP.

Police raided the second house around 1:45pm after the drive at 'Nargis Garden’ but found it empty, he said.

Police announced the end of the drive around 2:00pm.

risingbd/Natore/May 11, 2017/Ariful Islam/Amirul