2 Rohingyas among 6 drug peddlers held in Dhaka

Detectives have arrested six persons including two Rohingyas on charge of supplying yaba tablets by ingesting them in capsule form.

A team of Detective Branch of police (DB North) arrested them from Dakkhin Khan in the capital area during an anti-narcotics raid yesterday, Devdas Bhattacharya, additional commissioner of DB, said at a press briefing at Dhaka Metropolitan Police Media Centre in the morning.

Of the detainees, Md Mamun Sheikh, Md Shariful, Md Fahim Sarker, Md Razib Hossein are Bangladeshi and Md Selim Molla and Md Afser alias Babul, a minor, are Rohingyas, the DB official said.

During a primary interrogation of the arrestees, it was found that they ingested yaba tablets after wrapping them with scotch tape to easily transfer them from one area to another.

Md Mamun Sheikh and his associate Rezwan, who is a fugitive, have been in the yaba trade for a long period of time. Rezwan collects the tablets in Cox's Bazar and sends them to Dhaka where Mamun collects them, the DB official said quoting Mamun.

The Rohingya detainees -- Md Selim Molla and Md Afser alias Babul -- told police that Rezwan lured them into carrying yaba tablets in exchange of money, the official said.

They ingested the scotch tape wrapped yaba provided by Rezwan and came to Dhaka by train or bus three to four times every month to deliver them, he added.