Staff Reporter :
The High Court (HC) on Monday directed the Home Secretary and the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to notify all the Deputy Commissioners (DC) and Superintendents of Police across the country to take action to stop transportation, distribution and use of all kinds of illegal drug including Yaba.
The HC also directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to take action on a priority basis to prevent entrance of all kinds of illegal drug including Yaba, Ganja and Phensidyl though borderland of Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban districts.
The HC Bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah passed the order and issued a rule as Suo Moto after considering a report published in a Bengali newspaper under the banner of ‘Yabar gram-e kotipoti bashinda’ (Millionaire resident in the village of Yaba).
The court ordered the PBI to submit a report in the court on the matter and fixed March 1 next for further hearing on it.
In the rule, the court wanted to know as to why the ‘inaction and failure’ of the police administration and other concerned functionaries of the government to tackle entrance, transportation and marketing of all kinds of illegal drug including Yaba should not be declared illegal.
IGP, Director Generals of Border Guard Bangladesh and Coast Guard, DCs of Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar, Superintendent of Police of Cox’s Bazar, Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Officer-in-Charge of Teknaf have to comply with the rule.
The court said, before passing the order, “One person has to face four times searching to come to Cox’s Bazar from Teknaf. After that how the drug comes? The security system of that area is tighter than any other areas to tackle Rohingyas’ influx. The members of the law enforcing agencies of those areas specially the 76 miles area of Naff River are active.
