Ex-NBR Member Matiur sent to jail in arms case

A metropolitan magistrate court has sent former member of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) Md Matiur Rahman to jail in an arms case of Vatara Thana of the metropolis.

Sub-Inspector Belal Hossain of the Detective Branch (DB) of police, after the expiry of a three-day remand, produced Matiur before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Naznin Akhter on Saturday and prayed for confining him into jail till the end of the investigation. The court, after hearing the statement of the prosecution side, ordered to send him to jail custody.

Earlier on January 15, a team of the DB police arrested Matiur Rahman from a house in the Bashundhara area and recovered a firearm from his possession. Police later filed an arms case with Vatara Thana in this connection.

He was taken on a three-day police remand from the court of metropolitan magistrate Naznin Akhter on that day.