Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 arrested one person with 2,721 bottles of illegal alcohol from Ramnagar village in Sadar upazila of Dinajpur district on Thursday night.
The arrested person was identified as Md. Abdul Hanna, 48, of Dinajpur district. "Acting on a tip-off, an operational team of the Crime Prevention Specialized Company of RAB-13 seized the alcohol and arrested the man from the spot," said a press release issued in Dinajpur on Friday by Senior Assistant Director (Media) of RAB-13 Flight Lieutenant Mahmud Bashir Ahmed.
Another Shree Tapan, ring leader of a gang of illegal alcohol traders' syndicate, of the same village could not be arrested during the raid.
During primary interrogation, the arrested person admitted that he had been involved in trading alcohol in connivance with his other cohorts under the leadership of absconding Shree Tapan for a long time.
After filing a case in this connection against the detainee, the elite force
handed him over to Dinajpur Sadar police station.