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.
Detectives arrest a bus helper along with 3,800 pieces of contraband yaba pills at Firingi Bazar area of Chattogram city.
Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday recovered nine lakh yaba tablets, worth about Tk 27 crore, in two separate raids in Teknaf upazila.
At least 31 people are detained in an anti-narcotics drive in Dhaka’s Uttara area.
Law enforcers, in separate drives, seized 14.40 lakh yaba pills worth about Tk 71 crore and arrested four from Cox's Bazar and Comilla in connection with the seizures.
Detectives arrested an assistant sub-inspector of Narayanganj Sadar Model Police Station in possession of 50,000 yaba tablets yesterday, police said.
Around 9:30pm last Saturday, a police team stopped a motorbike in the capital's Palashi Residential Area. Alleged yaba dealers they had arrested earlier told them that a bike, registered in Chittagong, would have yaba pills stashed inside.
Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained six Myanmar nationals on a fishing boat in the deep sea at Saint Martin's Island, and recovered three lakh yaba tablets from them in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar yesterday.
A section of smugglers are allegedly operating transport agencies in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar to move drugs under cover, say insiders and investigators.
Police recovered 4,500 yaba tablets from a private car on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Chittagong's Lohagara upazila yesterday.
Rab seized 7.3 lakh yaba tablets and arrested seven people, including a Myanmarese, in this connection from Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila early yesterday.