Foreign pistol and bullets found hidden under kitchen roof at listed criminal Jewel's Jashore home

Detective Branch (DB) police have recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines and five rounds of ammunition from the home of listed criminal Touhidur Rahman Jewel in Jashore. The weapons and bullets were recovered from his house at Shekhati Purba Para in Sadar upazila at dawn on Saturday.

DB police said Jewel and his family members fled after sensing the presence of police during the raid. Jewel is the son of Kazi Alamgir Hossain of the same area.

According to DB police, 14 cases are pending against him on various charges including murder, arms, explosives, extortion and narcotics.

Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Jashore DB police, said the raid on Jewel's home was carried out on a tip-off. He was not found at home. A search later recovered, specially concealed under the tin roof of the kitchen, a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, four rounds of pistol bullets and one round of one-shooter ammunition.

The OC said the operation to arrest Jewel is continuing.