A team of police, led by Double Mooring Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Arif Faisal, conducted the operation based on a tip-off.
TBS Report
18 October, 2026, 05:25 pm
Last modified: 18 October, 2026, 05:31 pm
Police have recovered a Taurus pistol, two additional empty magazines and eight live rounds of ammunition stolen from Double Mooring Police Station in Chattogram on 5 August 2024.
The weapons and ammunition were recovered during a raid at around 3:30am today (18 October) on the second floor of an abandoned educational building beside Agrabad Government Commerce College in the city.
A team of police, led by Double Mooring Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Arif Faisal, conducted the operation based on a tip-off.
During the raid, police found the Taurus pistol with its magazine, two additional empty magazines and eight live rounds inside a black shopping bag on the building's second floor.
SI Mobinul Islam, in-charge of the Agrabad Police Outpost, and other members of Double Mooring Model Police Station took part in the operation.
The Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) disclosed the information in a press release sent to the media this afternoon.
The release said legal proceedings over the recovered weapons and ammunition were underway.