5 ticket blackers arrested

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested five suspected train ticket scalpers from Kamalapur Railway Station in the city on Thursday morning.

The elite force also recovered 27 train tickets and cash Tk1.3 lakh from ticket scalping.

Identity of the arrestees could not be known immediately.

Sources at the Rab headquarters said acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-3 conducted a drive in the area and arrested the five in the morning.

Details of the drive and arrestees will be disclosed at a press briefing in front of Rab-3 temporary camp at the railway station at about 11:00 am.