Drug peddlers assault SI in Rajshahi

An on-duty plainclothes police officer was assaulted by drug peddlers in Dharampur-Khojapur area of the city yesterday afternoon.

Sub-inspector Samiul Islam of Motihar Police Station was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital around 6:00pm with injury to his head and bruises on different parts of his body, said Amir Zafar, deputy commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police.

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His head wound required several stitches, but he was out of danger, he added. 

Drug peddlers attacked SI Samiul when he went to that area to locate houses of a few warranted accused. He was later rescued by the police after locals informed them of the incident, DC Amir said.

Since he joined the police station on November 8, Samiul arrested several drug peddlers from that area and when he went there by himself in plain clothes yesterday, they ambushed him, he said, adding that Samiul was able to identify the perpetrators of the attack.