The law enforcers recovered 600 litres of phensidyl, 200 phensidyl bottles, 2100 empty bottles, a huge quantity of powder, chemicals and other raw materials for phensidyl production from the factory near Sanuhar bus stand along the Barisal-Dhaka highway and arrested its owner Kamal Haldar alias Kamal Daktar, a local palli chikitshak (Rural Medical Practitioner).

RAB sources said Abu Haldar, Manik Fakir, Kashem and other associates of Kamal Daktar rented a two-room house and hung a signboard of Rural Economic Development Organization (REDO), an NGO, about six months ago.

But they used to produce phensidyl there.

On a tip-off, some Rab members in the guise of drug peddler contacted Kamal Daktar to supply them 200 bottles of phensidyl. Kamal was scheduled to supply the drug at 3 pm yesterday.

Rab raided the house at about 10 am, made the haul and arrested Kamal but his associates fled away.

Rab sources in Barisal said they handed over Kamal to Uzirpur police.

Police produced him to a court in Barisal, which sent him to jail.

When contacted over phone, sources said in Uzirpur Kamal Daktar opened a dispensary in one room of the house and the NGO office in the other room. But he used the other room to produce phensidyl.

The sources said the so-called NGOREDOwas not registered with the government's NGO Bureau.