Army officer arrested with 100 Yaba tablets

An army officer, who is also a doctor of Dhaka Combined Military Hospital (CMH), was arrested with 100 Yaba tablets in the capital's Dakkhinkhan area on Tuesday night.
Capt Basharul Anam Ahmed, 31, was detained in front of Choiti Garments in the area around 11:00pm. He hid the Yaba tablets in a cigarette packet.
Personnel of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) led by Deputy Director (DD) Ali Aslam of Dhaka Metro made the arrest after searching the car of Capt Basharul.
Abu Taleb, additional director of DNC, said after the arrest, some army officials had asked the DNC officials to hand him over to them so that they could take departmental action against him.
"But their demand could not be met, as police already recorded a case with Dakkhinkhan Police Station", he said.
Lokman Hekim, officer-in-charge of Dakkhinkhan Police Station, said DD Ali Aslam filed the case against the detained captain under the Narcotics Control Act last afternoon.
Ali Aslam said the detained army official was produced before the court. "But I am not sure whether the court granted him bail or sent him to jail".
Contacted, Shahinul Islam, director of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), told The Daily Star that the army authorities were aware of the incident and they would take stern punitive measures departmentally.