Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 arrested two alleged drug traders with 301 bottles of phensedyl from Mirerdanga area under Hatibandha upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Friday night. "On a tip off, an operational team of RAB-13 conducted a raid there and arrested the two men with the phensedyl from their possessions," said a press release issued on Saturday by Senior Assistant Director (Media) of RAB-13 Flight Lieutenant Mahmud Bashir Ahmed.
The arrested persons were identified as Md Tota Mian, 45, and Shree Bakul Chndra Roy, 28, of Lalmonirhat district. During primary interrogation, the arrested persons admitted that they had been involved in trading drugs in connivance with their other cohorts for a long time. After filing a case in this connection against the arrested persons, the elite force handed them over to Hatibandha police station in Lalmonirhat district on Saturday. "Further investigation continues to nab other absconding associates of the arrested persons," the release added.
