A joint anti-drug drive in several areas of Rangpur city ended in two young men being given three months’ simple imprisonment each and a fine.[1] The Department of Narcotics Control’s Rangpur Circle Ka and the district administration ran the drive around 6 pm on Tuesday 2 September, led by Priyanka Abanti, an executive magistrate of the deputy commissioner’s office.[1]

Officers worked at several spots in the Alamnagar CNB Godown, Hunumantala and Munshipara areas of Kotwali metro thana and detained the two men with the drug.[1] The detainees were Md Mehedi Hasan Biswas, 19, and Md Rajib, 26, and 200 grams of ganja were recovered from them in total.[1]

A mobile court tried the two in separate cases under the Narcotics Control Act, giving each three months’ simple imprisonment and a 100 taka fine, 200 taka in all.[1] SM Eltas Uddin, an inspector at the DNC’s Rangpur district office, confirmed the details and said such drives against drugs would continue.[1]