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The Chief Executive Officer of Rajshahi Zilla Parishad Md Nuruzzaman has been released from Chapainawabganj jail today eleven days after he was detained because he was carrying banned phensidyl in a government vehicle.
Nazmul Azam, the Public Prosecutor of Chapainawabganj District and Sessions Judge s Court said Nuruzzaman was the second accused in the case filed with Chapainawabganj Sadar Police Station.
Nuruzzaman s lawyers told the court he did not know anything about the seized phensidyl. On his way back to Shibganj upazila, he picked up one Ohiduzzaman Lazuk and it was Lazuk who was carrying the phensidyl. The officials of Narcotics Control Department arrested both him and Lazuk along with the banned drug.
At 8:30pm, Nuruzzaman was seen driving a government vehicle, said the official.
The DNC officials found another man Ohiduzzaman Lazuk, 44, an alleged drug peddler, in the passenger s seat.
The phensidyl, which amounted to 6.8 litres, was kept in five large bottles of soft drinks at Lazuk s leg space, said the DNC official.
Nuruzzaman identified himself as a Deputy Secretary of the government and Lazuk as one of his friends, the DNC official said.
After he was detained at 8:30pm, Md Nuruzzaman was taken to Chapainawabganj circuit house for confirmation of his identity from local government officials.
Since then, he was staying at the circuit house as the local government officials were not allowing the department officials to take him to the police station, claimed the DNC official.