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Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat

Five drug peddlers and takers include the identified left hand to Lalmonirhat municipality chairman and the president of poura BNP Mosharof Hossain Rana, the driver of Lalmonirhat CS office were arrested red handed with hemp, wine, phendsydil at Vatibari village of Mogholhat union unader Lalmonirhat sadar upazila at night on Wednesday.

The arrested are identified as the identified left hand to municipality chairman and locally called king of drug Nuruzzaman,32, his bodyguard Moza Uddin,35, smuggling syndicate member Swapon,28, cadre of BNP Hati Akbar,40, and the driver of Lalmonirhat Civil Surgeon CS office Sobuj Ali,36.

Police said, in a tip off, a team of Lalmonirhat sadar police led by officer incharge OC Abu Bakkar Siddique raided the house of Nuruzzaman at Vatibari at on Wednesday night and the police caught red handed to them with one kg hem, ten bottles wine and phendsydil.

Police source added that the arrested Nuruzzaman made his home with under ground for conducting drug business bravely showing the influence of Lalmonirhat municipality chairman Rana.

Nuruzzaman and Hati Akbar made threat to police that if the municipality chairman hear the news he will bail them from thana and the OC must be transfered in Rangamati. The arrested requested to police for free them at the spot in reference of chairman, police said.

In another hand, the Aditmari thana police arrested the chairman of Hatibandha border smuggling syndicate Nazmul Islam Nazu, 40, with Indian cloths worth Tk 50 thousand from the Hatibandha town on Wednesday night .

OC of Hatibandha thana Abdur Rashid told this correspondent arrested smuggler Nazu had been conducting his illegal trade since long and he was out of any trace. After long investigation, the thana police arrested him red handed. He is called chairman of border smuggling syndicate at Hatibandha area.