Members of Special Response Battalion have arrested a woman with Buprenorphine injections during a search of a passenger bus in Sirajganj Sadar upazila.
Shahnaj, 50, the wife of late Obirul, is a resident of Sonapur village under Panchbibi Police Station in Joypurhat district.
The operation was conducted around 12:20pm on Tuesday in the Katherpul area, near Telkupi Eidgah field in Telkupi, Sirajganj.
Md Fahaduzzaman Akand, senior assistant director and operations officer of SRB-12, confirmed the operation in a press release issued on Wednesday morning.
According to the press release, a team from SRB-12’s Sadar Company set up a checkpoint on the paved road from Telkupi towards Chandaikona after receiving secret information. During a search of a passenger bus, the team arrested Shahnaj, also known as Saina Begum, on suspicion of drug trafficking. They recovered 295 Buprenorphine injections from her possession.
SRB-12 said that during initial interrogation, she confessed to procuring Buprenorphine injections from border areas of Joypurhat for a long time and supplying and selling them in various districts across the country using passenger vehicles.
A case has been filed against her under the Narcotics Control Act at Sirajganj Sadar Police Station.
