Key accused sent to jail

Members of Rapid Action Battalion produced Nur Mohammad, the prime accused of a cocaine haul case, before a Chittagong court yesterday afternoon.

Nirmalendu Bikash Chakraborty, assistant commissioner (prosecution) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police, said Rab-7 officials produced Nur before Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Nurul Alam. Later, he was sent to jail.

Sources, however, could not confirm when and how Nur was arrested.

Contacted, Lt Col Mifta Uddin Ahmed, commanding officer of Rab-7 said they would not make any comment on the matter due to the case's sensitivity.

COCAINE HAUL CASE

The container carrying liquid cocaine with having 107 barrels of sunflower oil arrived at Chittagong port on May 8 last year from Bolivia via Uruguay.

Informed by police, Customs Intelligence officials sealed off the container at Chittagong Port on June 06 and opened it in the presence of different agencies on June 08.

Later, samples from each of the 107 barrels of sunflower oil were sent for test to two laboratories -- Drug Testing Laboratory and Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (BCSIR) -- in Dhaka. The tests found presence of liquid cocaine in the sample of barrel No-96 on June 27.

On the same day, police filed a case in this connection with Bandar Police Station under 1(B) of section 19(1) of Narcotics Control Act-1990.