RANGPUR, May 03, 2020 (BSS) – Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-13) seized 62 kg
of smuggled ganja and a truck and arrested a presumed drug trader from
Mustafi Bazar area in Sadar upazila of Lalmonirhat on Saturday evening.
“An operational team of the Crime Prevention Specialised Company (CPSC) of
RAB-13 searched a sand-laden truck thereon the Burimari-Lalmonirhat highway
and arrested the drug trader with the smuggled drugs,” a press release said
here this afternoon.
The elite force seized the truck, ganja packed in several sacks and
specially put aboard the sand-laden truck, a mobile phone set and two SIM
cards from the possessions of the arrested person.
The arrested drug trader is Md. Kabir Hossain, 25, son of Md. Hossain Ali
of village Mohishaban in Gabtali upazila of Bogura district.
During interrogation, the arrested person admitted that he had been
tactfully carrying smuggled ganja aboard different trucks loaded with various
goods from Burimari Land Port area in Patgram upazila of Lalmonirhat to other
parts of the country, the release added.
After filing a case in this connection, the elite force handed over the
arrested drug traders and seized goods to Lalmonirhat Sadar police station
today.