UNB, Comilla :
Drug peddlers are using innovative techniques every day to bring different kinds of drugs, including phensidyl, yaba, heroin, alcohol, marijuana, throw different belt areas across the district.
Like other belt areas of different districts, huge quantity of drugs is entering in the country through the Comilla belt every day.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Department of Narcotics Control, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police are working to prevent drug smuggling throw different belt areas, but they can’t able to stop it.
BGB-10 of Comilla belt is using dog squad at the border areas to combat drug smuggling. The three trained dogs are working to arrest the drug peddlers.
The strategy of drug smuggling is changing constantly. Drug peddlers hide verities of drugs inside the seasonal fruits, including watermelon, jackfruit, green gourd and pumpkin, to bring it throw district bordering areas.
Drug peddlers use sweet and saree packets, school bags, gift boxes, milk pots, water pots, water cans to bring drugs. These drugs are being brought from India by CNG-run auto-rickshaw, Taxi, under the small carriage engine, under the motorcycle seat and under the vehicle box of the vehicles and truck and bus driver seat.
Verities of drugs are spreading across the country in different ways. Drug peddlers also use long bamboo slit’s middle space to hide drugs like phensidyl, alcohol, whiskey, beer bottle.
Lt Colonel Khandaker Golam Sarwar of BGB-10 said that the drug peddlers are constantly adopting new strategies and we are also applying new strategies to curb drug smuggling.
At present, we are working to prevent smuggling with the cooperation of local people, members of civil society, the official added.
2 held with 24,000 Yaba pills
Highway police arrested two drug peddlers along with 24,000 pieces of Yaba pills from Shuagazi area in Sadar South upazila early yesterday.
As per regular drive, a team of highway police intercepted a bus in the area on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway and recovered 24,000 Yaba pills from beneath the seat behind driver’s seat, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Moynamoti Highway Police Station.
Later, the law enforcers detained Jewel, the bus driver, hailing from Ludhua village of Laxmipur and his helper Shamim, hailing from Tongibari of Munshiganj, in this connection.
The market value of the seized contraband tablets is Tk 72 lakh, he added.
A case was filed.
Drug peddlers are using innovative techniques every day to bring different kinds of drugs, including phensidyl, yaba, heroin, alcohol, marijuana, throw different belt areas across the district.
Like other belt areas of different districts, huge quantity of drugs is entering in the country through the Comilla belt every day.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Department of Narcotics Control, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and police are working to prevent drug smuggling throw different belt areas, but they can’t able to stop it.
BGB-10 of Comilla belt is using dog squad at the border areas to combat drug smuggling. The three trained dogs are working to arrest the drug peddlers.
The strategy of drug smuggling is changing constantly. Drug peddlers hide verities of drugs inside the seasonal fruits, including watermelon, jackfruit, green gourd and pumpkin, to bring it throw district bordering areas.
Drug peddlers use sweet and saree packets, school bags, gift boxes, milk pots, water pots, water cans to bring drugs. These drugs are being brought from India by CNG-run auto-rickshaw, Taxi, under the small carriage engine, under the motorcycle seat and under the vehicle box of the vehicles and truck and bus driver seat.
Verities of drugs are spreading across the country in different ways. Drug peddlers also use long bamboo slit’s middle space to hide drugs like phensidyl, alcohol, whiskey, beer bottle.
Lt Colonel Khandaker Golam Sarwar of BGB-10 said that the drug peddlers are constantly adopting new strategies and we are also applying new strategies to curb drug smuggling.
At present, we are working to prevent smuggling with the cooperation of local people, members of civil society, the official added.
2 held with 24,000 Yaba pills
Highway police arrested two drug peddlers along with 24,000 pieces of Yaba pills from Shuagazi area in Sadar South upazila early yesterday.
As per regular drive, a team of highway police intercepted a bus in the area on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway and recovered 24,000 Yaba pills from beneath the seat behind driver’s seat, said Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Moynamoti Highway Police Station.
Later, the law enforcers detained Jewel, the bus driver, hailing from Ludhua village of Laxmipur and his helper Shamim, hailing from Tongibari of Munshiganj, in this connection.
The market value of the seized contraband tablets is Tk 72 lakh, he added.
A case was filed.
