A woman drug peddler, who was arrested with 84 bottles of the banned cough syrup phensedyl by Border Guard Bangladesh, escaped from Jibannagar police station in Chuadanga early Thursday morning.
Her name is Monowara Begum, 30, daughter of one Shahjahan Mandal of Jalilpur village in Maheshpur upazila of Jhenaidah.
Confirming the matter, the police station’s Officer-in-Charge Mamun Biswas said he along with colleagues was conducting a drive to arrest her.
Additional Superintendent of Police Mohammad Riazul Islam said she was supposed to appear before a Chuadanga court on Thursday morning, and therefore taken to the Women and Children Desk at the Jibannagar police station.
Somehow she managed to escape dodging on-duty cops, the OC said.