Man held with heroin

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a drug peddler along with 176 sachets of heroin from the old Railway Station area in the city on Sunday morning. The arrestee was identified as Ranjan Das, 42, son of late Harekrishna Das of Sadarpur village in Sadar South upazila of Sunamganj district. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-9 conducted a drive in the area at about 7:30am and arrested Ranjan along with the contraband drugs. Later, he was handed over to police.