Two held with 31,500 yaba pills in port city
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have detained two people along with 31,500 yaba pills from a microbus on Mariners’ Road in the port city on Thursday night.
The detainees are Md Anwar Islam, 21, and Omar Rayhan Arafat, 20.
Both hail from Cox’s Bazar, according to a press release issued yesterday.
Upon information that a large consignment of yaba was being smuggled into the port city, members of the elite force intercepted a Chattogram-bound vehicle in Fishery Ghat area and detained the duo.
The officials recovered the pills, hidden inside the microbus, and seized the vehicle, the press release added.
The recovered yaba tablets are valued at around Tk 1.57 crore.
A case was filed with Kotwali Police Station in this regard.
The press release also said so far, over 62 lakh such pills have been recovered this year.
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