The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in an anti-crime drive, rescued 17 persons including seven women and nine children while they were being trafficked to India at Shaheb Bazar area under Boalia Police station in the city on Thursday night.

On a tip-off, a team of the elite force raided the area and arrested a trafficker and rescued the persons.

The arrested was identified as Mahmud alias Mamun Mollah, 30, son of late Osman Mollah hailed from Modobpasha village under Kalia Upazila of Narail district.

The rescued persons were identified as Israil, 30, his wife Taslima, 24, and sons Minarul, 12, Tajinur, 10, Ramjan, 1, and daughters Rohima, 8, Tania, 6, and Sultana, 4, Taslima, 50, and her daughter Kulsum, 8, Kalpona, 35, Robejan, 55, Nahida, 45, Nihar, 50, Arjina, 30, Rahim Sheikh, 7, and Jashim Sheikh, 5.

They also rounded up a suspected female drug-peddler and seized 264 bottles of Phensidyl and 2,000 liters of country-made liquor from different areas in Rangpur, Dinajpur and Rajshahi districts during the last 24 hours till Friday afternoon.

The arrested drug-peddler was identified as Nasmin Begum, 24, wife of Jenarul Islam of Jahanabad village under Parbatipur Upazila of Dinajpur district.

The rescued and the arrested persons with the seized drug items were handed over to the concerned police stations after recording separate cases in these connections.