6 held with drugs in capital

Detective Police produce six drug dealers before press at DB Headquarters in Dhaka with huge number of drugs on Friday. These dealers were arrested in on Thursday night from different parts of the capital. Photo: Focus Bangla

Detective Police produce six drug dealers before press at DB Headquarters in Dhaka with huge number of drugs on Friday. These dealers were arrested Thursday night from different parts of the capital. Photo: Focus Bangla

Detectives in separate drives detained six alleged drug peddlers with different drugs including heroin from different areas in the capital on Thursday night.

The six detainees are: Kabir Hossain, Masum Billah, Bachchu Mia, Md Hazrat, Aminul Islam and Md Harun-or-Rashid, said Masudur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), at a press conference at the DMP media centre around 11:00am.

Based on secret information police raided a Moghbazar hotel and nabbed Kabir and Masum around 7:30pm. They also also seized 2,000 pieces of yaba worth Tk 6 lakhs from their possession, Masudur said.

Following information given by Kabir, the DB team later seized a truck before Ananda Community Centre in Paltan and held Bachchu and Hazrat with 4,000 bottles of Phensidyl around 11:30pm.

In a separate drive, police nabbed Aminul and Harun with 500 grams of heroin worth Tk 50 lakh from the capital’s Boubazar area around 10:30pm, the police official said.

Three separate cases were filed in this connection.

Source: The Daily Star