Phensidyl bottles concealed in vegetable sacks

Detective police seized 2,500 bottles of phensedyl from a vegetable-laden truck and arrested five alleged drug peddlers in this connection from the city's Gabtoli area yesterday.
Senior Assistant Commissioner Mashiur Rahman of Detective Branch (DB) of police, who led the drive, said, on information that a gang of drug peddlers were coming from Dinajpur in guise of vegetable traders, they seized a truck in front of Parbat Cinema Hall after chasing it from the Gabtoli Bridge around 1:15am.
The phensedyl bottles were found in 15 cabbage sacks and 11 tomato carrying baskets in the truck alongside other rotten vegetables.
The arrestees, Towfiq Elahi Milton, 40, Khokon Chowdhury alias DIG Khokon, 45, Faruque Miah, 32, Abdus Salam, 30, and Faraz Mollah, 24, were all caught from the spot along with the truck.
They were presented at a press conference yesterday in DMP Media Centre where they admitted to their crime.
Abdus said he was an Imam of a mosque in Faridpur and got involved with the drug trading around two years back. His religious attire and beard helped him dodge the eyes of law enforcers.
Their gang used to bring drugs from the northern districts and sold those to the city peddlers, he added.
Khokon said he worked as a police source around 12 years back and later began to traffic drugs.
AC Mashiur said the gang members were accused in several cases filed with different police stations in the city.