The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police, in different anticrime drives, arrested 47 persons including a suspected drug-peddler on various charges from different areas in city and nine upazilas of the district in last 24 hours till on Saturday evening, police said.

Of them, 26 were arrested from different areas in the metropolis while 21 others from nine upazilas. Police arrested the drug peddler- Humayun Kabir, 19, son of Babul Hossain, and seized one kilogram of ganja from his possession after searching a Rajshahi bound passengers' bus from Chapainawabganj in Balia area under Rajpara police station in the city.

During the drives, traffic police lodged 16 cases under the motor vehicles ordinance and seized a motorbike without registration.