The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Police, in anticrime drives, rounded up 25 persons including three suspected female drug-peddlers from different areas in city and eight upazilas of the district in last 24 hours till Wednesday evening.

Police said of them, 17 were arrested from different areas in the metropolis while the rest from eight upazilas. Police picked up the drug peddlers- Angura Khatun, 35, Shamima Begum, 22, and Beauty Begum, 26, and seized 13 bottles of phensidyl and 20 grams of heroin during two separate raids in the city.

Traffic police lodged 26 cases under the motor vehicles ordinance and seized a motorbike without registration during drives against the non-registered motor vehicles and other document related malpractices in different parts of the city.