Acting on tip off, police raided the house of ex-union parishad member Abdul Halim and found 28 varieties of spurious insecticides of huge quantity. The insecticides included both liquid and dust in packets, cartoons and bottles. Police also recovered huge quantity of dust of stones and bricks-ingredients for manufacturing the insecticides.

Police Super of Faridpur, MA Jalil said that these spurious insecticide were being sold in different rural markets in view of the increasing demand of the farmers for planting T-Aman paddy.

Police also recovered some equipments for manufacturing the insecticides. Police arrested house owner Abdul Halim, Bachchu Molla and Afzal in this connection.

The recovered insecticides included Furadan, Bayodin, Zina Fosphate, and Sunforan.