The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police during its anti-crime drives arrested 82 alleged criminals including a female smuggler and a drug-trader on various charges from different areas of the city and elsewhere of the district during the last 48 hours till Friday evening.

Of the arrested criminals, 35 persons including the drug trader were rounded up from different areas of the metropolis while 47 others including the smuggler were neted from nine upazilas of the district, police said.

The drug trader was identified as Sirajul Islam, 45, who was arrested with 100 grams of ganja from the Kalabagan area under Boalia thana of the city.

In another operation conducted in a Rajshahi-bound passenger bus at Tanore area, a police team arrested the woman smuggler identified as Belly, 40, with 50 kg of smuggled cumin.

Police also seized 160 kg of silk yarn from Soronjai area under the same thana. The valuable silk yarn were being smuggled to India, police said but none could be, however, arrested in this connection.