The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police arrested 36 persons including an alleged drug-peddler on various charges from different areas of the city and nine upazilas of the district on Friday.

Police sources said of them, 14 including the drug-peddler were picked up from different areas in the metropolis while 22 others from nine upazilas of the district.

Police arrested the drug-peddler identified as Zakir Hossain, 22, and seized 20 bottles of phensidyl and 16 liters of country- made liquor during two separate raids at different places in the city.

After recording separate cases in these connections the arrested persons and the seized goods were sent to the court.

Traffic police lodged 27 cases under the motor vehicles ordinance and seized nine motorbikes and a tempo for either without registration or not having valid documents during drives against the non- registered motor vehicles and other document related malpractices in different parts of the city during the time.