Bangladesh police yesterday seized 995 rounds of live bullets from Bankakurha cluster village in Jhenaigati sub-district in northern district of Sherpur bordering Indian state of Meghalaya.
Intelligence sources suspect dumping of the bullets as the work, of insurgent groups working in Meghalaya.
Police superintendent Mohammed Anisur Rahman said Ashraful Islam, 26, of Dupuria village, had been arrested in connection with the latest recovery of ammunition from the house of Mohammed Ali, alias Ali Chora, 30, of Bankakurha yesterday.
He said Ali had been arrested from the Sherpur district headquarters on Sunday and the raid in his house had been conducted based on his statement to police.
Islam was arrested following Ali’s information after the recovery of the bullets, he added.
A joint team of police and a detective unit conducted the raid around 6am.
“The joint team recovered the 995 bullets of rifles, wrapped in a sack, from a hole in the house,” Rahman said.
The detective branch filed an arms case with the Jhenaigati police station. Jhenaigati police chief Abdur Rob Pradhan said Ali was accused in eight cases, including one for robbery.
Ali told reporters at the police station that he had been unaware of the ammunition.
Earlier on December 18 last year, 13,680 rounds of sub-machine gun (SMG) bullets were recovered from an abandoned house in Bankakurha.
Border Guard Bangladesh had claimed that the ammunition belonged to Indian outlawed separatist group United Liberation Front of Assam.