Municipal councillor held with 1.3kg heroin

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested a municipality councilor with 1.3kg of heroin in Rajshahi.

The arrestee, Mofazzal Hossain, is a councillor of Godagari municipality, said a Rab-5 press release.

A Rab team from Mollapara camp caught him red-handed with the heroin in Mahishalbari area under the municipality at 8am, said the release.

Rab sources said Mofazzal Hossain is one of the top dealers of the contraband drug in the region.

He is an accused in a case filed over repression on a woman as well, police sources said.

Filing of a drug related case against him was underway.

In another drive, Rab arrested three people with 628 bottles of Phensedyl in Battali area under Panchbibi Police Station in Joypurhat, the press release said.

Meanwhile in Chapainawabganj, a team of the elite force arrested a man with two foreign pistols, a gun, two magazines, ammunition and 1,045 yaba pills.

The arrest was made in Stationpara area under ​​Rahonpur municipality around 5:30am, it added.