Cops pick up expat on drug peddling charge
Family members of a man, who recently returned from Qatar, alleged that plainclothes Detective Branch (DB) men of Meherpur picked him up from his house yesterday.
The arrestee is Magrib Ali of Koromdi village in Gangni upazila of Meherpur.
DB officials said he was a listed drug trader and accused in five cases.
Magrib's wife Shaheda Khatun alleged that five or six plainclothes armed men stormed into their house at about 6:30am yesterday. They introduced themselves as DB men and looked for her husband, who was sleeping.
The DB men picked up Magrib and asked Shahida to meet them at the DB office.
Shahida admitted that her husband was involved in drug trading five years ago.
“My husband went to Qatar in June of 2015 to escape arrest,” Shahida said.
Magrib returned home after two years and started farming and beef fattening, but he did not go back to drug dealing, she said.
A DB team arrested Magrib and sent him to jail in October 2017, a week after he returned from Qatar, Shahida said, adding that he was released on bail after two months.
Meherpur DB Police Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shahin Uddin said Magrib was a listed drug dealer in Gangni upazila and five Yaba tablets were recovered from him during the arrest.
“Magrib was accused in five cases, including one for robbery and four for drugs,” the DB OC said.
Magrib will be produced before a court after interrogation, the police official said.
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