Suspended govt official among 3 held with Yaba
Police in a drive arrested three people, including a suspended government official and his wife, along with 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Jashore town early yesterday.
The arrestees are SM Farid Ahmed, a suspended official of Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, his wife Tamanna Akter Poly and brother-in-law Al-Amin.
A team of the law enforcers, acting on a tip-off, raided the house of Raju in Jhumjhumpur area in the town around 4:00am.
They later detained Raju's three tenants including Farid and seized 1,000 pieces of Yaba from their possession, Officer-in-Charge of Jashore Kotwali Police Station Apurba Hasan said.
Police said during the drive Farid introduced himself as a personal officer at Law and Justice Division at the ministry and showed his ID though he was suspended from the job long ago.
Farid, who visits Cox's Bazar frequently, brings the contraband pills from there and sell those in different areas through Poly and Al-Amin, the OC added.
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