Shawdesh Desk:

Police recovered Tk 66 lakh — 66 bundles of Tk 1,000 notes — from a canal in Jail Road of Lalmonirhat Sadar on Wednesday night.

Shah Alam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Lalmonirhat Sadar Police Station, said that a local man found a bag of money while he was fishing in the canal at 10:00pm and informed the police.

Later, the police went to the spot and recovered the bag and brought it to the police station.

Shah Alam said that there were stickers on the bundles saying “Lucky Coupon”, “Bhaggyo Poriborton”.

Initially, the recovered money is thought to be counterfeit, the OC said, adding that it will be confirmed after examining them.