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BSS, Rajshahi

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5, in anti-crime drives, rounded up five alleged criminals including a JMB cadre and three drug-peddlers and seized phensidyl from different areas in Rajshahi, Joypurhat and Rangpur districts during the last 24 hours till yesterday noon, RAB sources here said.

Acting on a tip-off, a team of the elite forces picked up the JMB cadre identified as Alamgir Hossain alias Raihan alias Rana, 36, son of Abdul Awal from his Naldanga village under Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat district.

They also rounded up the drug-peddlers identified as Manik, 25, Ainal, 27, and Azahar Ali, 25, with 92 bottles of phensidyl and some lethal weapons during separate raids at different places in Rajshahi and Rangpur districts.

In another operation conducted at Ziapur village under Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat district, another RAB squad arrested a wanted criminal identified as Profulla Chandra Das, 48, son of late Kanungo Chandra Das, a resident of the same village.