10 held with heroin, yaba

Rapid Action Battalion arrested these four members of a drug dealing gang, which uses Bangladesh as a transit route for smuggling drugs to different countries, along with 1.3kgs of heroin, 3,100 fake US dollars and a private car in the capital's Uttara yesterday. Photo: Banglar Chokh

Law enforcers in several drives recovered 1.3 kg of heroin and 30,000 pieces of contraband yaba tablets from different parts of the capital on Thursday night.
They also arrested 10 people including a Nigerian in this connection.
Tipped off, a team of Rapid Action Battalion-1 arrested four people, including the Nigerian, along with 1.3 kilogram of heroin, 3,100 fake US dollars and a private car in the capital's Uttara. The seized heroin is worth around Tk2 crore.
The arrestees are Nigerian Onyka Godson Dbamalu, 34, Abul Kashem, 52, Payel Begum, 28, and Nilima Labonyo, 28.
The four are members of a drug dealing gang, which uses Bangladesh as a transit route for smuggling drugs to different countries, said a press release of Rab.
They confessed to law enforcers that they had put some heroin in a box of clothes ready to be shifted to China by the DHL courier company.
Also on Thursday night, Detective Branch of police recovered 30,000 yaba tablets worth around Tk65,00,000 and arrested six people in this connection at Chawkbazar, Kamalapur and Banasree of the capital.
The arrestees are Manila Chowdhury, 22, Abu Taher, 48, Md Khaled, 30, Kulsum, 32, Jane Alam, 45, and Md Asif, 24, said Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), at a press conference at its media centre yesterday afternoon.
Taher confessed to have smuggled the yaba tablets from Myanmar, while the others admitted that they were involved in supplying those to different parts of the country including Dhaka, Gazipur and Chittagong, added Monirul.
A third-year student of finance department at Titumir College, Manila earlier had served 10 months of imprisonment for supplying yaba, noted the DMP official.
Yesterday, a Dhaka court put the six arrestees on three-day police remand each.