<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Police arrested two people and seized 20 gold bars from Sitakunda in Chattogram district on Wednesday.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The arrestees were identified as Basu Pal, 35, son of Sunil Pal of Anwara upazila, and Ratan Pal, 60, son of Shashank Pal of Bashkhali upazila.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Tofayel Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said suspecting the movement of two people, police challenged them in front of Shyamoli Paribahan bus counter in the morning.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Later, police recovered 20 gold bars, weighing 2332.11 grams, from their shoes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After interrogation, police came to know that they were waiting for a bus to go to Dhaka to sell the gold bars.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The market value of the seized gold bars is Tk 1.70 crore.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A case was filed with Sitakunda Police Station. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>