50,000 yaba pills seized in Dhaka

Detectives have seized a consignment of 50,000 yaba pills at Dhaka’s Baridhara area while being carried concealing in packets attached with different covered parts of a truck with powerful magnets.

Police also arrested two alleged drug traders --Khairul Bashar, 36, and Saizuddin alias Sharif (22), and seized the truck.

Drugs smugglers always evolve innovative ways to carry the “crazy pills”. They sometimes swallow a small pack of yaba with sticky food item, conceal the pills in fruits or fuel tanks of motor vehicles or even cellphone and then carry to dodge law enforcers, but attaching packets of Yaba with a truck using magnets is something new, detectives said.

Tipped that a gang of yaba traders are heading towards Kuril area through Pragati Sarani in a truck with a consignment of the crazy pills, a team of DB (north) intercepted the truck at Baridhara area at 11:20 pm on Tuesday.

After a thorough search, the DB members found 13 packets containing the Yaba pills at different covert places of the truck.

“The drug dealers used powerful magnets in each packet to keep them attached with the body of the truck,” Deputy Commissioner (North) of DB Mashiur Rahman told The Daily Star today. 

The yaba pills are light-orange coloured and the price of each tablet is around Tk 300, he added.

Mashiur said the drug dealers have been collecting Yaba from Cox’s Bazar’s Teknuf, the gateway of smuggling the crazy drug into Bangladesh, and supplied those in the capital and different parts of the country.

He said the arrestees admitted that they collected the Yaba pills months back and targeted to sale those ahead or during New Year celebration.

After the seizure, a case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act with Gulshan Police. The arrestees were placed before a Dhaka court today with 10-day remand prayer for each. The court, however, granted two days remand for each of them.