Once an area is declared a drug-prone zone, a taskforce will be formed with DNC and other law enforcement agencies involved in drug control. A list will be made of drug dealers, money launderers using drug money and the accused in drug-related cases, he added.
She used to bring yaba to Dhaka from the areas near the border with Myanmar and sell those at the flat
It takes around 4 hours to swallow 54 small packets of yaba for 41-year-old Josna Khatun. Each packet contains 50 pills.
Police in a drive arrested a man and recovered 148,000 pieces of yaba pills from a fishing trawler at Old Kalurghat area in Chandgaon of Chattogram city today.
Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) detains one person with 2,280 yaba pills hidden inside his stomach at the domestic terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.
High Court (HC) has termed a charge sheet as “defective” in a case filed over recovery of 49,000 yaba tablets in Narayanganj last year.
Coast Guards members yesterday recovered seven lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills from a boat in the Naf River of Teknaf early yesterday.
Three including two women have been arrested in Mymensingh city who were carrying yaba tablets inside their shoes.
A man has been arrested with yaba tablets at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) has said.
Coast Guards members yesterday recovered seven lakh pieces of contraband yaba pills from a boat in the Naf River of Teknaf early yesterday.
Three including two women have been arrested in Mymensingh city who were carrying yaba tablets inside their shoes.
A man has been arrested with yaba tablets at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, Airport Armed Police Battalion (AAPBn) has said.
Forensic surgeons at Dhaka Medical College morgue found 11 packets of yaba pills while conducting autopsy on a body yesterday morning.
A constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and one of his associates were held with 990 yaba pills from Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, on Thursday evening.
Detectives on Friday night arrested two persons on charge of transporting around 46,000 yaba pills hidden inside gas cylinders.
The surrender of 102 drug lords on February 16 now seems merely an eyewash as the yaba empire in Teknaf remains mostly intact with some of their family members and paid agents taking care of the illegal trade.
From political leaders to businessmen, fish traders to poultry farm owners and brickfield workers to tailors -- the professions of 102 yaba godfathers and dealers who surrendered to police on February 16 are as varied as their age.
A new strategy of yaba smuggling, involving fresh routes and hundi traders, has been at work since the surrender of 102 godfathers and dealers in Cox's Bazar in February.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has asked private helicopter operators “to be more cautious” after receiving information that choppers were being used for smuggling yaba pills.
