Locals evicted drug peddlers from two dens, while police arrested a woman carrying Phensidyl at a den in Khochabari Linerpar in Lalmonirhat town yesterday.
The arrested woman, Shefa Begum, 30, was held with six bottles of Indian phensydil, an illegal drug.
Shefa’s husband Mazidul Islam, 44, is also a drug peddler, but he managed to escape arrest.
Hundreds of people swooped and vandalised their houses, in order to make the drug peddlers stop their trade.
Seeking anonymity, a schoolteacher said local people had asked the traders to stop several times, but they never listened.
He added: “We want a drug free environment.”
Mahbub Islam, sub-inspector of Lalmonirhat police station, said police arrested Mazidul’s wife Shefa Begum and were trying to arrest her husband Mazidul Islam too.
Local people alleged that the two drug peddlers– Golam Rabbani, 44, and Mazidul Islam had been selling illegal drugs at their homes for a long time, and that their homes had become safe dens for drugs abusers.
Golam Rabbani had already been arrested while selling phensydil in his den a month ago, and had been awarded a one year jail term by a mobile court.
