One arrested with Marijuana at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport

A Kuwait bound passenger named Sohel Miah (35) was arrested with approximately 5 kg Marijuana (Ganja) at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport today at around 0100 hours. Sohel hails from Narsingdi district and was going to Kuwait by Kuwait Airways. The scanner operator at departure gate 4 suspected something in his bag while sohel was trying to enter the airport through that gate. In presence of the customs officer, the bag was opened and around 5 kgs of marijuana in four separate wrapped packets was found with two packets of puffed rice as cover. Arrested Sohel claimed that a colleague of him named Milon in Kuwait asked him to receive a bag with puffed rice at the airport from his relatives in Bangladesh. Accordingly he received the bag assuming the information true as the bag seemed to be light weighted to him. He also added that he waited for that bag for a long time and after receiving the bag, he was trying to enter that gate, he claimed. 

Legal action against him was under process at the time of writing of this report. ...