Three persons, including a police constable, were arrested with one kilogram of heroin from a frontier place in the district last night.
Ifte Khayer Alam, additional superintendent of Police, told BSS that the arrested police constable has been identified as Nur Muhammad alias Nabiul Islam. He was posted in Chandrima Police Station under Rajshahi Metropolitan Police.
On a tip-off, a Detective Branch (DB) team of the district police conducted a raid in Railway gate area under Godagari upazila in the district and arrested Nabiul with 500 grams of heroin red-handed around 10.30 pm.
Based on information given by Nabiul, the DB police team also arrested Mithun Ali, 32, and Rabiul Islam, 34, and recovered another 500 grams of heroin from their possession after conducting a raid at Sharangpur village under the same upazila in the same night.
Quoting the confessional statement, Ifte Khayer Alam said Nabiul was involved in drug-trading and trafficking with his cohorts for a long time.
A case has been recorded with Godagari Police Station in this connection and the arrested persons along with the seized contraband items were handed over to police this noon.
