RAB arrests youth with 48.5kg hemp in Dhaka

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RAB arrests youth with 48.5kg hemp in Dhaka

Shawdesh Desk:

The Rapid Action Battalion arrested a suspected drug peddler with 48.5 kilograms of hemp in the capital’s Motijheel area on early Saturday.

The arrested is Rakibul Hasan Imon, 23, son of late Tofazul Hossain of village Habibpur under Sonaragaon upazila in Narayanganj.

Lieutenant Colonel Arif Mohiuddin, commandant at the RAB-3, said tipped-off they conducted a drive in Motijheel area around 3:20am and arrested Imon with the hemp.

Apart from this, a pickup van used in the drug peddling was seized, he said.

During primary interrogation, the arrested admitted that he had been involved in drug peddling in the capital and other parts of the country for a long time, the RAB official said.