One Arrested with 1,965 Yaba Tablets in Nilphamari

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 arrested an alleged drug peddler with 1,965 pieces of Yaba tablets from village Kolabagan under Saidpur upazila of Nilphamari district today. Acting on a tip-off, an operational team of the Crime Prevention Company-2 of RAB-13 from Nilphamari camp conducted a raid in the village and arrested the man with the contraband Yaba pills at 9:05 am, a press release said this afternoon. 

The detainee is Md Khokan Mia, 55, son of late Mozaffar Ahmed of village Uttar Shollakiya under sadar police station of Noakhali district. After filing a case in this connection, the elite force handed over the arrested person to Nilphamari's Saidpur police station, the release added.