58,000 Yaba tablets seized
Ukhia police seized 40,000 Yaba tablets with a street value of at least Tk 2 crore from a car on Teknaf-Cox's Bazar highway Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion seized 18,000 Yaba tablets from a drug dealer in Uttara in the capital.
Chitra Dhar Tripura, assistant superintendent of police (Ukhia Circle), said he along with a police team was laying in wait by the highway around 9:00pm following a tip off, our correspondent in Cox's Bazar reports.
Sensing trouble, the drug pedlars drove away when the police tried to stop them, which led to a high-speed chase on the highway.
At one stage, the smugglers abandoned the car beside the road near Kotbazar and fled.
Police then recovered the tablets from the car.
Rab arrested a drug dealer and seized around 18,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from his possession Thursday evening.
Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of Rab-1 and Narcotics Control Department raided a Chinese food restaurant in Uttara and arrested Abdus Sakur Mahmud, 44.
Commander Shohail, director (legal and media wing) of Rab, at a press briefing at Rab headquarters yesterday morning, said the arrestee gave important information about the Yaba trade.
Mahmud told Rab that he has been involved in the Yaba trade for a long time and he used to bring four to five consignments of the tablets to Dhaka from Teknaf every month.
He said some wholesalers buy the tablets from him and sell them at some points in the city.
He used to smuggle in the tablets from Myanmar, he told Rab.
Rab recovered around 1.20 lakh Yaba tablets from the city's Gulshan area in 2007 and arrested a manufacturer. Rab officials said they recovered around 3.21 lakh pieces of Yaba tablets till now and arrested 1,373 traders in this connection.
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