DHAKA, April 9, 2022 (BSS) - Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in

separate drives arrested seven people with huge amount of drugs worth about
Taka 21.81 lakh in the city's Mohammadpur, New Market and Hazaribag areas on
Friday.

The arrested were identified as covered van driver Md Arif Hosen, 34, Pick-up
van driver Md Mohin, 32, Md Rony, 32, Md Manik, 32, Md Halim, 40, Md Jafor,
39, and an unidentified person.

Additional Director (Media) of RAB-2 Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)
Md Fazlul Haque confirmed the incident to BSS saying: "On secret information,
a team of the elite force set up three check posts at Mirpur road, Hazaribag
Beribadh road and Mohammadpur Krishi Market road in the capital on Friday
night and arrested the seven people with a total of 19 kilograms of Cannabis
and 537 bottles of Phensidyl.

During the drives, the RAB members detained a covered van and two pick-up
vans and they also seized nine mobile phone sets and cash money of Taka
11,600 from their possession.

"Cases have been filed against the arrested persons under the Narcotics
Control Act," the official said, adding that the detainees were being handed
over to the concerned police stations.