Drug
2 held with 14,000 Yaba tablets in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Nov 12 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested two suspected drug traders along with 14,000Yaba tablets from Panerchhari Bazar area in Ramu upazila on Sunday night.
29 held with huge drugs in Sylhet
Sylhet, Nov 11 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 29 drug traders including six female along with huge drugs from Kashtoghar area in the city on Saturday evening.
BGB seized Tk 72.86-cr contrabands in Oct
Dhaka, Nov 4 (UNB) – Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods and various types of contraband narcotic items worth around Tk 72.86 crore during its anti-smuggling drives across the country in October.
Two held with 50,000 yaba pills in city
Dhaka, Oct 26(UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested two people along with 50,000 pieces of Yaba pills from Beribadh in the city’s Mohammadpur area on Thursday night.
Five held with yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Oct 26 (UNB) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested five suspected drug traderes along with 31,000 peices of yaba pills from Linkroad BSCIC area in the distrcit town on Thursday night.
2 held with 20k Yaba in Chattogram
Chattogram, Oct 25 (UNB) – Detectives in a drive arrested two young men along with 20,000 Yaba tablets from Bridgeghat Firingibazar area of the city on Wednesday night.
4 held with 82,000 Yaba pills in Cox’s Bazar
Cox’s Bazar, Oct 24 (UNB) – Members Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-7 arrested four people along with 82,000 Yaba pills from BSCIC area of Link Road in the city on Wednesday.
‘Drug trader’ hurt in Joypurhat ‘gunfight’
Joypurhat, Oct 21 (UNB) – A suspected drug trader sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug traders at Tilakpur Burapukur in Akkelpur upazila early Sunday.
The injured was Ohidul, son of Kachim Uddin of Roynagar village in the upazila and accused in seven drug-related cases.
Hearing gunshots, a patrol team of police went to the spot, said Kiran Kumar Roy, officer-in-charge of Akkelpur Police Station.
Sensing the presence of police, the drug traders fled away.
Later, police found Ohidul as bullet-hit condition and took him to Joypurhat Modern Hospital.
The police team also recovered a pistol, one round bullet and 47 bottles of Phensidyl from the spot.
55 held in anti-drug drives
Dhaka, Oct 19 (UNB)– Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 55 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during special anti-narcotics drives in the capital in the last 24 hours till 6:00 am Friday.
Death sentence for trading, using over 5 grams of Yaba
Dhaka, Oct 8 (UNB) – The Cabinet on Monday approved in principle the draft of Narcotics Control Bill, 2018 with a provision of death sentence or life-term imprisonment as punishment for producing, trading and using more than 5 grams of Yaba or more than 25 grams of heroin and cocaine.