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The government has announced a bounty for providing information leading to the recovery of the looted firearms after August 5 last year, aimed at recovering all the looted firearms prior to the 13th parliamentary election slated for February next year.
Home Adviser Lieutenant General (Retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday made the announcement after coming out of the core committee meeting on law and order at the Home Ministry in Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka.
"We're announcing Tk 0.50 million for information to help the recovery of one LMG and Tk 0.15 million for one SMG," he said.
The home adviser also said that one will get Tk 50,000 for helping recover one pistol and Tk 50,000 for one shotgun, reports BSS.
Tk 500 will be given to help recover one looted bullet, he added.
According to the information of the Police Headquarters, as many as 5,750 firearms and 651,609 rounds of ammunition were looted from various police stations, outposts and other installations after the fall of the Awami League government in the July Mass Uprising.
The seized arms, 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 nationwide joint operation to recover the looted firearms and ammunition began on September 4 last year.
The adviser earlier said that approximately 700 firearms are still missing.