Police arrested an operator and a passenger attendant of Dhaka-bound ‘Panchagarh Express Train’ with 80 bottles of phensedyl at Bir Muktijoddha Sirajul Islam Station in Naogaon on Wednesday evening.
The arrestees are operator Jahangir Kabir, 45, and compartment’s passenger attendant Sadekul Islam, 32.
Md Muktar Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Santahar Railway Police Station, said that the two were performing duty in the train heading towards the capital.
Police conducted a drive on the compartment of the operator when the train arrived at the station from Santahar junction in the evening, he said.
A total of 80 bottles of phensidyl were recovered from the travel bags of the operator and the attendant, the OC said.
A case under Narcotics Control Act was filed with the police station and the arrestees would be produced before a court on Thursday, he added.
