The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Ghoraghat

Police seized huge quantities of contraband Phensidyl and a private car from Nurjahanpur Colony point on the Dinajpur-Dhaka highway under Ghoraghat upazila in Dinajpur on Friday night, police said.

Acting on a tip off, a special police team from Ghoraghat Thana put barricade on the road at the point and stopped a Dhaka-bound private car (Dhaka- Metro-Kha 11-1807) from Dinajpur frontier.

After searching the car, the police team seized 320 bottles smuggled Indian Phensidyl and also seized the car from the spot. Driver of the car, however, managed to escape the scene abandoning his car sensing police barricade and police filed a case in this connection with Ghoraghat police station, the sources said.