Police have recovered a huge cache of locally made spear-like sharp weapons from the house of an Awami League leader in Pabna's Faridpur upazila.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided the house of Helal Talukder, former legal affairs secretary of upazila Awami League, on Monday afternoon.
During the raid, 95 local weapons made with steel pipes were recovered from his Ratanpur village house in Pungali union.
However, police could not arrest Helal and his companions as they managed to escape.
Faridpur police station Officer-in-Charge Masud Rana said a team of police raided the house on the basis of information that Helal had a large quantity of weapons in his house.
Sensing presence of police, Helal and his associates fled by boat, he added.
A case was being filed in this regard and police were conducting drives to arrest them, OC Masud further said.
Faridpur Awami League General Secretary Ali Ashraful Kabir said, “Helal Talukder is the former legal affairs secretary of upazila Awami League. I have heard about the recovery of weapons from his house.”
A decision about him will be taken after discussing it at the party meeting, he said.
