The Detective Branch of Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday evening nabbed five drug peddlers and five others with 165 battery-run rickshaw chargers from several shanties at Motijharna area of port city.
“Acting on a tip-off, a DB team conducted a drive at the area and nabbed five noted drug peddlers who were smuggling drugs into the port city for a long time,” CMP Detective Branch Additional Deputy Commissioner Babul Akhter told the Dhaka Tribune.
Meanwhile, detectives also arrested five persons involved in charging battery-run rickshaws illegally, he added. They also found 165 chargers from their possession.
The arrestees and the recovered items were handed over to Khulshi police station and two separate cases were lodged with the police station.
