Dhaka, Aug. 17 -- Police on Friday night arrested five individuals on charges of stealing stones from Sadapathar area in Companiganj upazila of Sylhet.

Of them, Kamal Mia, 45, Md. Abu Sayeed, 32, and Md. Abul Kalam, 35, were caught from their houses in Companiganj, while Eman Ali, 28, and Jahangir Alam, 35, were nabbed at a checkpoint on the Sylhet-Bholaganj highway as they were transporting crushed stones by truck. The stones and truck were also seized.

Earlier on Friday, a case was filed by an official of the mineral resources directorate against 2,000 unnamed people over taking away stones from the area, said officer-in-charge of Companiganj Police Station Uzayer Al Mahmud Adnan.

According to the case, some miscreants have illegally...