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ASI held with 3000 pieces of yaba in Rangpur

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Published: 16:28, 23 November 2020  
ASI held with 3000 pieces of yaba in Rangpur

A team of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) arrested an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of police along with 3,198 pieces of yaba and a bottle of Phensidyl in Thikadarpara area of Rangpur on Monday (Nov 23).

The arrestee is identified as Maniruzzaman who was working in Kurigram district.

Executive Magistrate of Rangpur district Rahat bin Kutub said, acting on a tiff-off, a team of law enforcers conducted a raid at a house on Station Road in Thikadarpara this morning with the help of the district drug control department and arrested the ASI.

He was later brought to the deputy commissioner's office and a case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act in this regard, he said.

Tahidul Islam, Sub-Inspector (SI) of the Department of Narcotics Control in Rangpur district, said that ASI Moniruzzaman was earlier suspended on charges of being involved in drug use and trafficking.

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