Truck seized with 1.78 lakh yaba pills
Rapid Action Battalion seized around 1.78 lakh yaba tablets from a truck and arrested its driver from Savar, on the outskirts of capital, on Saturday night.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-4 stopped the Rajshahi-bound truck coming from Cox's Bazar in front of Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre gate around 11:30pm and carried out a search, Maj Maksudul Alam, assistant director (legal and media wing) of Rab, told The Daily Star.
The team recovered some 981 polythene bags carrying the yaba pills, which were kept under the driving seat, the Rab official said.
The value of the pills was estimated at Tk 5.34 crore, he added.
The detainee, Isha Khan, 32, of Chapainawabganj, is a member of an organised drug-smuggling syndicate, Maksudul claimed.
The vehicle was seized.
During primary interrogation, Isha confessed that a drug trader of Cox's Bazar gave him the tablets to hand over those to a person at Shaheb Bazar in Rajshahi, the Rab official said.
Almost all the yaba consignments are being smuggled into the country through Teknaf border with Myanmar and spread across the country by drug smugglers with the help of some dishonest members of law enforcement agencies.
On June 20, the elite force arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Special Branch of police and his driver along with 6.8 lakh pills in Feni while those were being taken to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar.
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