The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police, in anticrime drives, arrested 47 people on various charges from different areas in the city and nine upazilas of the district in last 24 hours till yesterday evening.

Of them, 22 were picked up from different areas in the metropolis, while 25 others from nine upazilas of the district.

Police also seized 46 kilograms of copper and brass scrap materials, which were supposed to be smuggled out to India, during a sudden raid on a Chapainawabganj-bound BRTC bus in Kazihat area under Rajpara Police Station in the city. However, none could be arrested in this connection.

Traffic police lodged 29 cases under the motor vehicles ordinance and seized a motorbike and a truck during the drives against non- registered motor vehicles and other document-related malpractice in different parts of the city during the time.