UNB, Dhaka :
In separate incidents, some 40,875 Yaba tablets were seized in the capital and Cox’s Bazar and six people arrested on Saturday.
In the capital, customs officials arrested a man along with 875 Yaba pills at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning.
The arrestee was identified as Jahir Uddin, 39, hailing from Laxmipur.
Customs official said Jahir Uddin came here for going to Sharjah by a flight of Air Arabia which was scheduled to take off at 9:30 am.
The customs officials during scanning found an object wrapped with carbon paper in his luggage and recovered 875 Yaba tablets after unfolding it around 7:30 am.
Juela Khanam, assistant commissioner of customs at the airport, confirmed the incident.
Meanwhile, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five people along with 30,000 contraband tablets from Khuruskul ghat area of the district town of Cox’s Bazar in the afternoon.
The arrestees, identified Hasem, 50, Zamal, 40, Lokman, 40, Nazir, 40, and Rahim, 38, hail from different areas of the town.
Tipped off, a team of the elite force launched a drive in the area around 3pm and recovered the 30,000 Yaba tablets after searching a
trawler (FB Saimon-3) near the ghat in Bankukhali River, said assistant police super Delwar Hossain, in-charge of Rab-7.
Later, the crime-busters team arrested five fishermen of the trawler for their alleged involvement in Yaba smuggling.
The arrestees were handed over to sadar police station, the assistant police super added. A case was filed in this connection.
In another incident, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 10,000 pieces of Yaba at Hila Customs ghat in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the morning.
Tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in the area and seized a boat along with some sacks containing crabs at about 9:30 am, said Habildar Taribur Rahman of BGB-42.
Later, the border force recovered 10,000 Yaba tablets searching the sacks. However, no one was arrested as the smugglers fled the scene sensing the presence of the border guards.
In separate incidents, some 40,875 Yaba tablets were seized in the capital and Cox’s Bazar and six people arrested on Saturday.
In the capital, customs officials arrested a man along with 875 Yaba pills at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the morning.
The arrestee was identified as Jahir Uddin, 39, hailing from Laxmipur.
Customs official said Jahir Uddin came here for going to Sharjah by a flight of Air Arabia which was scheduled to take off at 9:30 am.
The customs officials during scanning found an object wrapped with carbon paper in his luggage and recovered 875 Yaba tablets after unfolding it around 7:30 am.
Juela Khanam, assistant commissioner of customs at the airport, confirmed the incident.
Meanwhile, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five people along with 30,000 contraband tablets from Khuruskul ghat area of the district town of Cox’s Bazar in the afternoon.
The arrestees, identified Hasem, 50, Zamal, 40, Lokman, 40, Nazir, 40, and Rahim, 38, hail from different areas of the town.
Tipped off, a team of the elite force launched a drive in the area around 3pm and recovered the 30,000 Yaba tablets after searching a
trawler (FB Saimon-3) near the ghat in Bankukhali River, said assistant police super Delwar Hossain, in-charge of Rab-7.
Later, the crime-busters team arrested five fishermen of the trawler for their alleged involvement in Yaba smuggling.
The arrestees were handed over to sadar police station, the assistant police super added. A case was filed in this connection.
In another incident, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 10,000 pieces of Yaba at Hila Customs ghat in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar in the morning.
Tipped off, a BGB team conducted a drive in the area and seized a boat along with some sacks containing crabs at about 9:30 am, said Habildar Taribur Rahman of BGB-42.
Later, the border force recovered 10,000 Yaba tablets searching the sacks. However, no one was arrested as the smugglers fled the scene sensing the presence of the border guards.
