Narsingdi, March 16 -- in-charge of the Detective Branch (DB) in Narsingdi and a court inspector have been withdrawn and attached to Dhaka following allegations that they sold 96 kilograms of seized cannabis.

The accused officials are OC SM Kamruzzaman and Inspector Khandaker Zakir Hossain.

According to reports, the OC allegedly sold the drugs and distributed the proceeds among his associates.

On February 4, a DB team seized 96 kg of cannabis from an orchard in Sristigar village under Shibpur upazila and stored it at the DB office, as per a media release issued the next day.

Although official documents indicated that the drugs were sent to the judicial magistrate court, Inspector Zakir later admitted that they were never actually deli...