Photo: BSS

RAJSHAHI, July 17, 2026 (BSS)- Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) 
arrested a drug dealer with 31 kilograms of marijuana in an operation under 
Mohanpur upazila of the district in the early hours of today. 

At that time, one of his associates managed to flee cunningly.
 
Based on a secret tip-off, a team of the Sadar Company of RAB-5, Rajshahi, 
conducted an operation on the Rajshahi-Naogaon highway in front of the 
Kesharhat Government Primary School under Mohanpur Police Station at 3:10am 
today.
 
In the operation, Mukul alias Kalu, 40, son of the late Kitab Ali of Bakshail 
village in Mohanpur upazila, was arrested with the contraband marijuana.
 
RAB said that another accused, truck driver Raju Mia, 20, managed to escape 
cunningly during the operation.
 
According to RAB, during preliminary interrogation, the arrested confessed 
that he had been collecting marijuana in various ways in collusion with his 
absconding associate for a long time and selling it in Mohanpur and other 
areas. 

He also confessed that he had stored the seized marijuana for the purpose of 
selling it, the sources added.
 
A case has been lodged at Mohanpur Police Station under the Narcotics Control 
Act against the arrested Mukul and the fugitive Raju Mia in this incident.