Youth held with car, phensidyl

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a youth with a car carrying 700 bottles of phensidyl on Patuakhali-Barisal road in Lebukhali area under Dumki upazila early yesterday.

The arrestee is Saiful Islam Rasel, 33, son of Humayun Kabir of Patuakhali town, said Md Hasan Ali, acting company commander of Rab-8.

Saiful was coming from Khulna by a private car. At Lebukhali, the elite force stopped the car, arrested Rasel with the phesidyl and seized the vehicle.