Woman arrested with heroin and Yaba tablets in Nilphamari

The Special Response Battalion (SRB)-13 in a raid arrested an alleged female drug dealer with 13.42 grams of heroin and 12 orange-colored Yaba tablets from Paniyal Pukur village under Kishoreganj police station of Nilphamari last night.

The detainee is Rawshanara Akter, 33, wife of Md Akhtarul Islam of the same village, a press release said here this afternoon.

Acting on a tip-off, an operational team from the Nilphamari Camp of SRB-13 conducted a raid on a house in the same village and arrested the woman red-handed in her bedroom, in possession of smuggled heroin and Yaba tablets at 8:10 pm.

After filing a case against the arrested women in this incident, the elite force handed her over to Kishoreganj police station along with the seized narcotics for further legal action.