Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) destroyed huge quantities of contraband drugs worth about TK 181.48 crore after bulldogging the illegal drugs at RAB-7 headquarters at 11-30 am yesterday.
The damaged drugs included 45,29,200 pieces of contraband sex stimulating Yaba tablets, 4,319 bottles of contraband Phensidyle, 152.7 kilograms of ganja, 239 bottles foreign made wine and 314 cans foreign made beer.
RAB source said, the damaged liquors recovered the contraband drugs in a series of drives from January o1 in 2015 to February 20, 2016 in abandoned condition from different places in the city and district.
Home Minister Ashaduzzaman Khan Kamal, City Mayor AZM Nasir Uddin, Fazle Karim Chowdhury, MP, M A Latif MP, Mostafizur Rahman, MP, Chairman of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), M A Salam, Director General of RAB Benozir Ahmed, Chittagong Metropolitan Police Commissioner Abdul Jalil Mondol, high officials of RAB-7, judicial magistrate, journalists and local people witnessed the destruction of drugs.
