A Dhaka court sentences three drug peddlers to life in jail for possessing 2,300 bottles of phensidyl in 2005.
An alleged drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” between a drug gang and law enforcers near Habirchara union of Teknaf upazila in the early hours yesterday.
Six people, including two alleged Rohingya drug traders, were killed in “shootouts” with law enforcers in Dhaka and two other districts early yesterday.
Two alleged drug peddlers and a murder case accused were killed in “gunfights” with police in Cox's Bazar early yesterday.
The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested 91 people, including six women, in an anti-narcotics drive in Mohammadpur's Geneva Camp, considered a major drug hub in the capital.
An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Dhonpur in Cumilla's Sadar upazila yesterday.
A drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” between two feuding gangs of illegal traders in Charghat upazila's Raotha village early yesterday.
Two suspected drug traders are killed in reported gunfights in Meherpur and Cumilla districts.
Golam Faruk and his wife Afroza Akhter came empty-handed to Dhaka in 2009. Born to an insolvent family in Chapainawabganj, he was hoping a change of scene would result in a change of fortunes.
Born and brought up in Chhoba Patti in Dhaka's Gendaria, Rahima used to sell small packets of ganja and heroin inside the squalid slum. Two decades down the line, she now owns at least 10 buildings, moves around in luxurious cars and has big, fat bank accounts.
There seems to be no end in sight of the “gunfights” that are leaving alleged drug peddlers killed during the ongoing anti-narcotics drive across the country.
Around 300 Rab personnel from different battalions with dog squads and a bomb disposal unit cordoned off the Geneva Camp in Mohammadpur yesterday morning.
The mansions of Nazirpara and Moulvipara, two remote villages in the coastal upazila of Teknaf, would fascinate anyone with their architectural beauty.
Narcotics trade continues in at least three known spots in the capital with drug dealers changing their tactics in the face of the ongoing nationwide anti-drugs crackdown.
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday came down heavily on the government for killing people indiscriminately in the name of a crackdown against the illegal drug trade.
Eight more suspected drug traffickers were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers across the country yesterday, raising the number of deaths to 42 in the ongoing countrywide anti-narcotics drive in the last nine days.
Khulna is like a haven for drug dealers as several policemen, with ranks from constable to officers-in-charge, are directly or indirectly involved in the smuggling and the supply chain.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has shortlisted top drug traders in the capital and their patrons including some linked to the ruling Awami League, and will launch a crackdown on them after further scrutiny.
As the special drive against yaba peddlers goes on in full swing, questions arise why some alleged yaba godfathers in Ukhia-Teknaf, the gateway of smuggling the crazy drug into Bangladesh, whose names have prominently figured in multiple intelligence reports, remain out of the net.
