Police recover lost pistol and bullet from abandoned spot in Gazipur's Bason area

Police have recovered a pistol lost by a police member during an anti-drug operation in Gazipur, along with a magazine loaded with a bullet. The weapon was recovered at around 3am on Thursday (5 November) from an abandoned place in the Barbaika Muchipara area under Bason Police Station in Gazipur Metropolitan.

The matter was confirmed by Bason Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Harun Or Rashid.

According to police sources, on Saturday afternoon (31 October), while on duty, SI Parvez Mallik raided an area north of Unishe Tower beside the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway and detained two people with drugs.

A scuffle took place while the detained men were being put into a vehicle. After returning to the police station with them, Parvez Mallik realized his pistol was missing. He could not confirm how or where the weapon had been lost. A general diary (GD) was filed at the station over the incident.

OC Harun Or Rashid said that at around midnight on Thursday, acting on secret information, police raided an abandoned place on the west side of a four-storey building owned by Professor Md Sirajul Islam on T&T Road in Barbaika Muchipara.

The lost pistol was recovered from there. A magazine loaded with one round of bullet was also found with the pistol.