Dhaka, Oct. 16 -- The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) has seized 244 litres of foreign liquor and beer during a raid on a rest house in Gulshan of the capital and arrested its manager.

The arrestee is Md Ataur Rahman Shamim, 42, manager of 78 Rest House Society on Road 104 in Gulshan-2.

The DNC also named Md Omar Jamil, 45, who is linked to the establishment, as a suspect. He is currently absconding.

A case was filed with Gulshan Police Station against Shamim, Jamil and other unidentified individuals.

Acting on intelligence that the establishment had been storing and selling foreign liquor and beer without a valid bar licence, a DNC team conducted the raid around 2:30am on Friday, said Md Mehedi Hasan, deputy director of the DNC...