TDS Desk:

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 in a drive detained a presumed drug trader with huge drugs from Dariyapur Bazaar under Sadar upazila in Gaibandha district on Tuesday night.

The detainee was Md Mashiur Rahman, son of Md Joynal Abedin of village Kuthi Poradanga in Nageshwari upazila of Kurigram district.

“The seized drugs include 2,300 pieces of Yaba tablets and 125 bottles of phensedyl,” said a press release issued here by Senior Assistant Director (Media) of RAB-13 Flight Lieutenant Md Saifullah Nayeem this noon.

On a tip-off, an operational team of the Crime Prevention Company (CPC)-3 of RAB-13 set up a check post at Dariyapur Bazaar and searched the motorcycle used by the man and detained Mashiur with the contraband at 11:10 pm.

The elite force handed the arrested person over to Gaibandha Sadar police station for further legal action, the release added.