Three arrested in drug raids across three northern districts

Special Response Battalion (SRB)-13 in separate drives seized 8.5 kg of ganja and 170 Yaba pills and arrested three persons from different places of Thakurgaon, Dinajpur and Nilphamari districts in the last 24 hours.

A press release signed by SRB-13's Senior Assistant Director (Media) and Additional Superintendent of Police Biplob Kumar Goswami confirmed the information today.

On a tip off, an SRB-13 team from Dinajpur Camp arrested Tuton Sarkar, 30, of Borolajakata village under Bhairab police station of Kishoreganj with 8.5 kg of ganja from Khochabari Bazar under Sadar police station of Thakurgaon at 8:15 pm last night.

In another driver, the SRB team seized 2.5 kg of ganja from Panchshala village under Birol police station in Dinajpur district and arrested Md Nawab Ali, 59, from his house in the same village at 2:45 pm yesterday.

In third operation, another SRB team from Rangpur seized 170 Yaba pills and arrested Md Abdul Haque, 31, from his house in Purba Kharibari (Jinjinpara) village under Dimla police station in Nilphamari district at 6:30 pm yesterday.

After filing three separate cases regarding these incidents, the elite force handed over the arrested persons and the seized narcotics to the concerned police stations, respectively.