The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police, in anti-crime drives, rounded up 53 persons on various charges from different areas in city and nine upazilas of the district on Monday.

Of them 18 were picked up from different areas in the metropolis while 35 others from nine upazilas of the district.

Police also arrested a suspected drug-peddler identified as Kalam, 40, and seized 250 grams of heroin and five bottles of phensidyl during separate drives at different places in the district.

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

Traffic Police lodged 35 cases under the motor vehicles ordinance and seized two motorbikes without valid documents from different parts of the city during the time.