Md Joynal Abedin Khan :
The death toll and the arrest of drug peddlers turned a downward trend as high profile drug lords have already left the country taking chance of easy mood at the airports, seaports and land points before starting of the ongoing crackdown against narcotics across the country.
They (drug lords) collected information about the anti-drug drive from their paid informers and vested quarters in the law enforcing agencies. They were informed of the formal date (May 12) of starting of crackdown as per the decision of an inter-forces level meeting after getting instruction from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on May 3.
Over 600 drug lords, including 154 from the capital, took shelter to the neighboring country with the assistance of their cohorts and border security force, intelligence sources said.
Consequently, they said, the law enforcers could not arrest the monarchs and high profile drug dealers during the ongoing drive
while around 150 alleged peddlers were killed and more than 12,000 arrested on charge of possessing narcotics.
The sources categorically acknowledged that the death toll turned a downward trend as most of the listed drug peddlers had gone out of the net of the law enforcing agencies.
In the latest, a drug peddler was killed in Kishoreganj on Thursday, two on Wednesday, four on Tuesday, two on Monday, three on Friday while 15 in a single day on May 30, according to media reports.
Earlier, the Home Ministry has recently identified 60 top drug dealers and 1,151 drug peddlers. Most of them are from Teknaf and Cox’s Bazar. Police of Cox’s Bazar claimed that none of the suspects could be arrested as most of them have fled the area and currently they are in hiding.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that law enforcers had been instructed to show zero tolerance against drugs.
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed said that they were conducting all-out drives against drugs, not against particular people. He said the drug dealers and addicts will be arrested, no matter how powerful they are and none will be spared.
“We also have surveillance in areas where drugs enter and exit. We are working to prevent yaba’s entry into the country,” he said.
Seeking anonymity, a high official of the Police Headquarters (PHQs), confessed the involvement of some members of law enforcing agencies and said that at least 10 police personnel, two RAB men and five BGB members, were sent to force retirement on charge of their involvement.
He also could not make any comment over the shelter of the drug peddlers to India.
Kazi Manjurul Islam, Acting Commander of BGB-2 in Teknaf, said that they conducted the operation on the basis of a tip-off. But the drug dealers were well aware of their presence and fled the scene before being nabbed.
The death toll and the arrest of drug peddlers turned a downward trend as high profile drug lords have already left the country taking chance of easy mood at the airports, seaports and land points before starting of the ongoing crackdown against narcotics across the country.
They (drug lords) collected information about the anti-drug drive from their paid informers and vested quarters in the law enforcing agencies. They were informed of the formal date (May 12) of starting of crackdown as per the decision of an inter-forces level meeting after getting instruction from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on May 3.
Over 600 drug lords, including 154 from the capital, took shelter to the neighboring country with the assistance of their cohorts and border security force, intelligence sources said.
Consequently, they said, the law enforcers could not arrest the monarchs and high profile drug dealers during the ongoing drive
while around 150 alleged peddlers were killed and more than 12,000 arrested on charge of possessing narcotics.
The sources categorically acknowledged that the death toll turned a downward trend as most of the listed drug peddlers had gone out of the net of the law enforcing agencies.
In the latest, a drug peddler was killed in Kishoreganj on Thursday, two on Wednesday, four on Tuesday, two on Monday, three on Friday while 15 in a single day on May 30, according to media reports.
Earlier, the Home Ministry has recently identified 60 top drug dealers and 1,151 drug peddlers. Most of them are from Teknaf and Cox’s Bazar. Police of Cox’s Bazar claimed that none of the suspects could be arrested as most of them have fled the area and currently they are in hiding.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said that law enforcers had been instructed to show zero tolerance against drugs.
RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed said that they were conducting all-out drives against drugs, not against particular people. He said the drug dealers and addicts will be arrested, no matter how powerful they are and none will be spared.
“We also have surveillance in areas where drugs enter and exit. We are working to prevent yaba’s entry into the country,” he said.
Seeking anonymity, a high official of the Police Headquarters (PHQs), confessed the involvement of some members of law enforcing agencies and said that at least 10 police personnel, two RAB men and five BGB members, were sent to force retirement on charge of their involvement.
He also could not make any comment over the shelter of the drug peddlers to India.
Kazi Manjurul Islam, Acting Commander of BGB-2 in Teknaf, said that they conducted the operation on the basis of a tip-off. But the drug dealers were well aware of their presence and fled the scene before being nabbed.
