2 held with 112-kg ganja in Rajshahi

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in an anti-crime operation, arrested two alleged drug peddlers with 112 kilograms of ganja in the district last night.

The arrested were identified as Mosharaf Hossain, 38, son of late Nazrul Islam of Fulbari village under Godagari upazila in Rajshahi district and Muhammad Sharif, 27, son of late Abdul Maleque of Ghorashal village under Muradnagar upazila in Comilla district, RAB sources said this noon.

On a tip-off, a team of the RAB conducted a raid in the house of Mosharaf Hossain around 1.30 am and recovered the hemp and arrested them red-handed, RAB sources said.

Another team of the elite force arrested another alleged drug-peddler identified as Hafizur Rahman Molla, 30, son of Ruhul Amin Mondal of Daspukur area under Rajpara police Station in Rajshahi metropolis with 196 bottles of phensidyl from Haripur Bazar under Damkura Police Station in the district last night.

The arrestees, with the seized contraband goods, were handed over to the police. Two separate cases were filed with the respective Police Stations in these connections. (BSS)