2.6 kg heroin seized, two youths arrested
Contraband 'yaba' recovered
Staff Correspondent
Officials of the Department of Narcotics Control seized 2.6 kg heroin worth over Tk 2.6 crore and a huge quantity of contraband Yaba tablets raiding a students' mess at Shiddeswari in the capital early yesterday and arrested two youths including a student of Stamford University.The arrestees are Saimon Islam Johny, 24, a second-year student of the Department of Drama in Stamford University and Shahrier Emon, 24. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the department searched a flat on the ground floor of a five-storeyed building from 11:30pm to 12:30am and recovered the heroin contained in 26 packets and 1,485 sex stimulating Yaba tablets worth about Tk 6 lakh kept in 15 packets. The packets were kept in a wardrobe. Officials said minutes before the raid the leader of the drug peddling gang in Dhaka Alamgir Hossain Shamim, 40, left the house with 400 grams of heroin and some tablets. A party from Benapole in Jessore gave them 3 kg heroin and the tablets on Thursday evening, officials quoted the arrestees as saying. Emon told the officials that he has been involved in the drug cartel for several years while Saimon said he joined the group 10 to 12 days ago. Narcotics control officials, however, suspect that Saimon has been working with the group for quite a long time. The arrestees said a party used to carry the drugs to Dhaka from Benapole and they supplied it in small amounts to different spots in the city. Alamgir assured Saimon of providing 25 per cent of the profit, the latter said, adding that after his joining the gang sold out another 2kgs of heroin, but he is yet to get his part of the profit. According to Saimon there are over 100 drug spots in the city, but he visited only a few spots at Town Hall in Mohammadpur, Nayabazar and Agargaon. Saimon told the narcotics control officials that as he is a neighbour of Alamgir at Sharsha village in Jessore, Alamgir allured him to join their group saying that he would earn a lot. "We conducted the raid after receiving information on Thursday that a huge consignment of drugs had come to the house," said Fazlur Rahman, an assistant director of the Department of Narcotics Control. Saimon and Emon are now in the custody of the Narcotics Control Department and will be placed before a Dhaka court on Sunday with a prayer for seven-day remand. Narcotics control officials conducted raids at several places in the city yesterday to arrest Alamgir, but failed to nab him as of 9:00pm.
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