2400 bottles of phensidyl seized, 11 arrested
Law enforcers seized 2400 bottles of phensidyl and arrested 13 people from Kishoreganj, Meherpur and Kushtia yesterday.
Nine hundred bottles of phensidyl were recovered and 11 were arrested in this connection at the toll plaza on UK-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge on Dhaka- Sylhet Highway at Bhairab upazila sadar yesterday, reports our Kishoreganj correspondent.
Acting on a tip, a Rab team led by ASP Ali Ashraf followed two microbuses coming from Kamkoir border area in Brahmanbaria district and stopped the two vehicles at the toll plaza at UK-Bangladesh Friendship Bridge, Bhairab Police Station Officer-in-Charge Shahjahan Kabir said.
Rab men recovered 900 bottles of phensidyl and arrested 11 traffickers from the microbuses, he said.
The arrestees were handed over to Bhairab Police Station.
Our Kushtia correspondent adds: Law enforcers recovered 1551 bottles of phensidyl in Meherpur and Kushtia and arrested two drug traders in Meherpur yesterday.
Following a tip, a Rab team raided the house of Nazrul and Jony at Mothmura village in Gngni upazila in Meherpur at about 5:30am and recovered 1000 bottles of phensidyl from there. Rab arrested Nazrul and Jony in this connection and handed them over to Gangni police.
A Detective Branch team of Kushtia police raided Hosnabad field and recovered 551 bottles of phensidyl kept at an abandoned house at about 9:30am.
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