Reward to be offered for information on looted police arms

The government will reward those who will provide information about firearms looted from police during the July-August mass uprising, Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said on Sunday (August 10).

The adviser disclosed this while talking to reporters at the Secretariat after a meeting of the core committee on law and order, reports UNB.

“We are issuing a circular to recover the arms that were lost. We will also announce a reward. A committee will decide within the next couple of days how much we can offer…we will make the announcement through the media. Anyone providing credible information will receive the reward,” Jahangir Alam said.

More than 700 of the looted police firearms remain untraced, he added.

After the fall of Awami League government in a mass uprising, police said 5,750 firearms and 651,609 rounds of ammunition were looted from various police stations, outposts and other installations.

The seized arms and ammunition included rifles, submachine guns (SMGs), light machine guns (LMGs), pistols, shotguns, gas guns, tear gas launchers, tear gas shells, tear gas sprays, sound grenades and bullets.

A joint operation to recover the stolen arms and ammunition began on September 4 last year.