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BSS, Rajshahi

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) rounded up three suspected drug peddlers and seized heroin and smuggled goods in Rajshahi and Chapaina-wabganj districts on Saturday afternoon.

On a tip-off, a team of the elite force conducted a sudden operation on a residential hotel in Luxmipur area under Rajpara Police Station in Rajshahi city and arrested the drug peddlers and seized 50 grams of heroin from them. They were Bakul Hossain, 32, Rubel, 27, and Borhan Uddin, 20.

They seized 200 grams of heroin in another raid in Arambagh area under Chapai-nawabgonj Sadar upazila in an abandoned condition.

In two other operations at Muralipur and in Yousufpur areas under Rajpara Police Station in Rajshahi city, they seized 70 smuggled Indian sarees valued at around Taka 1.05 lakh. However, none could be arrested in these connections.

The arrested persons and seized goods were handed over to the concerned police stations.