The Criminal Investigation Department unearthed two factories used in making forged currencies and stamps and recovered different types of stamps and US Dollar Travel ers Cheques fTC) worth about Tk three crore from Ramna and Sutrapur thana areas in the city late Tuesday night

Meanwhile, the Detective Branch (DB) police during raids In Lalbagh Kotwali and Keranigan] thana areas recovered more than five lakh forged < ertificates of Dhaka Unfver sity and different education t«>ards yesterday morning The DB team arrested five persons in this connection, police said

A special squad of CID city zone during separate raids in Modhubagh In Ramna and Deen Nath Sen road In Sutrapur area late Tuesday night recovered the forged stamps and arrested two persons Identified as Abu) Hossain. 45. and Harun. 45. CID sources said

The recovered stamps included Insurance and revenue stamps.

Meanwhile, during the drive to recover forged documents of different educational instltu tlons. police found fake certificates and marksheets of different universities including Dhaka University The DB also recovered testimonials, admit cards of different schools and colleges and forged SSC, HSC. bachelor and master degree certificates police said.

The arrested five persons were identified as Shamsu. Jomsher All. Jamal. Hasan and Shahabuddin.