Bangladesh: 70 people arrested as police conduct raid in Parjatan Corporation bar in Narayanganj
Dhaka, Apr 2 (IBNS): The police have arrested 70 people while conducting a raid in Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation’s Mary Anderson Floating Restaurant and Bar in Narayanganj, media reports said.
Law enforcers from the Detective Branch of Police and Fatullah Model Police Station led by Additional Police Superintendent (DB) Subash Chandra Saha, conducted the two-hour operation on Monday, Narayanganj District Police said in a statement as reported by bdnews24 news portal.
Eighty-one cartons containing foreign beer cans and four cartons containing bottles of foreign alcohol were seized during the raid which ended at 10pm Monday, the statement added, reported the news portal.
Authorities of the bar failed to produce a licence to store the alcohol, Police Superintendent (DB) Subash Chandra Saha told bdnews24.
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