The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 12 alleged criminals, including six drug peddlers, and seized a firearm, nine cocktails and 211 bottles and 10 kilograms of loose Phensidyl from different areas in the region in last 24 hours ending yesterday noon, RAB sources here said yesterday afternoon.

Acting on tip-offs, two separate teams of the elite force arrested Dilip Kumar Das, 20, son of Uttam Kumar Das with nine cocktails from his residence at Chowkipara village under Natore district and recovered a country-made shutter-gun from Nawdapara area in Rajshahi city in an abandoned condition.

RAB also arrested six alleged drug peddlers including five women identified as Rohima Khatun, 40, Oshan Ara, 55, Anzoara, 40, Shahnaz, 35, Zoly, 45, and Abdul Kader, 45, with the drug items during separate drives in Ranigonj Bus terminal area under Ghoraghat Upazila of Dinajpur district and Dighirpar area under the same district.

In two other separate raids in Kekordandapani area in Joypurhat district and at Joypurhat Railway station, RAB members seized six smuggled cattle and 56 sarees valued at Taka 76,000 and arrested five persons in these connections.

They were identified as Siddique, 48, Anwar Hossain, 40, Abdul Mannan, 30, Ferdous, 29, and Rashidul Islam, 28.

The arrested persons and the seized goods and drugs were handed over to the concerned police stations.