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DRUG-PEDDLERS-CONVICTION
30 drug peddlers jailed in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, July 13, 2018 (BSS) -Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)
have arrested 34 more people here while 30 of them were sentenced to
different terms of jail each by mobile courts on charge of taking drugs and
drug trading.
The elite force conducted drives in different areas of Rajshahi,
Chapainawabganj and Joypurhat districts on Thursday and arrested 34 people
for their alleged involvement in drug trading or taking drugs.
The RAB officials said RAB also seized 96 yaba tablets, 0.642 kilogrammes
of ganja, 200 liters of country-made liquor and some other drugs-taking
instruments from their possessions.
Later, the arrestees were produced before two separate mobile courts.
After examining the evidences, Executive Magistrates Sharmin Akter and
Masudur Rahman sentenced 30 of them to jail. Regular cases were filed against
four detainees.
Saiful Islam, assistant superintendent of police working with RAB, said
different courts sent more than 405 drug addicts to jail during the last 16
days.
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