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ARREST-DRUG-PEDDLING (with picture)
33 drug addict-peddlers nabbed in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, Sept 25, 2018 (BSS)- Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested thirty-three alleged drug addicts and peddlers here while twenty-three of them were sentenced to different terms of jail each by a mobile courts on charge of taking drugs and its trading.
On tips-off, the elite force conducted drives in different areas of Rajshahi, Natore and Chapainawabganj districts on Monday and arrested the people for their alleged involvement in drug trading or taking drugs.
RAB officials said they also seized 1,511 bottles of Phensidyl, 43 pieces of yaba tablets, 5.888 kilograms of ganja, 350 liters of country-made liquor and 10 ample of drug-injections and some other drugs-taking instruments from their possession.
Later, the arrested were produced before three separate mobile courts. After examining the evidences, the mobile courts sentenced twenty-three of them to jail.
Three of them were fined Taka 11,000 and regular cases were filed against seven other detainees.
Saiful Islam, assistant superintendent of police working with RAB, said different courts sent more than 115 drug addicts to jail during the last couple of days.
BSS/AH/AU/09:55 hrs