Sylhet Correspondent: Dhaka, Jul-19,

Police have arrested two persons from Sylhet’s Shahparan police station area along with Indian medicines worth Tk 15 lakh.

They were arrested on Sunday at 10 am from the Chaumuhana Bazar area in Khadimpara.

The arrestees are Faisal Ahmed, 25, son of late Yakub Ali of Naljhuri village in Gowainghat upazila and Zakir Hossain Dalim, 28, son of Habibur Rahman of Atgram village in Zakiganj upazila.

According to the police, while on regular duty at the bypass point checkpost on the Sylhet-Tamabil road, they signaled a private car coming from Tamabil around 9:30 am to stop. But the driver defied them, and so the police gave chase. They stopped the car at Chaumuhana Bazar area.

While searching police recovered 10,000 pieces of Indian made Sterile Noradrenaline Concentrate IP, that is injected, worth Tk. 15 lakh.

Noradrenaline is used to treat low blood pressure.

The driver and another person with him were both arrested.

Additional Deputy Commissioner (Media) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police BM Ashraf Ullah Taher said the drugs were being smuggled from India through the Kanaighat border area to Sylhet for sale.

A case has been filed with Shahparan Police Station under the Special Powers Act, he said.