Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an alleged smuggler along with 22 gold bars weighing 2.75 kgs from Sahapur Talpukur area in Sadar upazila on Friday morning.
The arrestee was identified as Nasir Khan, 45, son of late Alauddin of Muktarpara of the upazila.
Police said on secret information, a team DB police conducted a drive in the area and arrested Nasir at about 8.00 am while he was going to Sahpur Talpukur in an auto-rickshaw after arriving in Naogaon from Dhaka by a train.
Later, the law enforcers recovered the gold bars worth Tk 1.37 crore after searching his body, police said.
A case was filed with Sadar Police Station in this connection. –UNB, Naogaon
