Faridpur: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two men for stockpiling some 300,000 or 3 lakh government textbooks, and selling them illegally at Goalchamot in Faridpur on Friday morning.

Tipped off, RAB members arrested M Sarfaraz Sheikh, 40, and Sheikh Ramjan, 60, in front of a warehouse in the morning, said M Rois Uddin, additional superintendent of police of RAB-8 of Faridpur.

The elite force members conducted a search in the warehouse and recovered the textbooks, Rois added.

Later, the arrestees were produced before the court of executive magistrate M Matiur Rahman, who sentenced the duo to a month’s imprisonment each for stockpiling textbooks and selling those illegally. 

The textbooks were sent to the office of the deputy commissioner of the district, reports news agency UNB.