Ctg cop held with yaba

A police official was arrested along with 1,700 yaba tablets on Saturday night when he was trying to sell those in Chittagong city's Kotwali area. The police official seized the tablets from a yaba trader around two weeks ago. 

Redwanul Islam, assistant sub-inspector of Bakalia Police Station, caught the trader on the night of November 10 in the city's Bakalia area and recovered the tablets from his possession. Instead of filing a case against the trader, the police official took the tablets and let the trader go, said Chittagong Metropolitan Police.  

On Saturday night, Redwanul himself went to sell the tablets in Kotwali area. But he was caught along with his two other associates by a team of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) of divisional intelligence office before he could sell those tablets. 

“During primary interrogation, he admitted that he got the tablets from a yaba trader whom he arrested on secret information in Notun Bridge area on November 10 and took the tablets. He was trying to sell the pills, said Abdur Rouf, additional deputy commissioner of CMP (south zone), who had interrogated Redwanul.

Rouf said the ASI had already been suspended and more departmental action would be taken against him.

Yesterday, a case was filed against three people, including ASI Redwanul, with Kotwali Police Station by DNC Sub-inspector Mohammedul Huq. Two other accused are his associates Zillur Rahman, 32, and Isratul Noor Jerin, 20, of Boalkhali.

Idris Ali, superintendent of DNC divisional intelligence office, said acting on a tip-off, they arrested the three and found the yaba tablets in a packet inside a car.

Abul Mansoor, officer-in-charge of Bakalia Police Station, said Redwanul joined his police station on March 3 this year. He was on leave from November 11 to 17 and scheduled to be on duty at MA Aziz Stadium from November 18 to 28.

"I was not informed about the incident of arresting a yaba trader and letting him go when he was under by supervision," said Mansoor.

Our Cox's Bazar correspondent adds: Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday seized five lakh yaba pills, worth around Tk 15 crore, from a trawler in the Naf river of Teknaf upazila.

Abu Russell Siddiqui, additional director of 2 BGB Battalion in Teknaf, said a BGB team took position in Alugolla Project area, acting on a tip-off that a trawler with yaba tablets from neighbouring Myanmar would be heading towards Bangladesh early in the morning.

Sensing presence of the BGB members around 4:00am, the yaba traders opened fire. The BGB members then returned fire. At one stage, the traders fled, leaving the trawler.

The BGB members then searched the trawler and found the pills.