Desk Report/Press Release:
In two separate raids from Mohammadpur and Adabar Thana areas of the capital, RAB-2 arrested 2 drug dealers along with 8,900 pieces of yaba and 250 bottles of Fencidil.
Today, at 12.15 pm on 12/12/2020, the expedition team of RAB-2 came to know on the basis of secret information that a drug dealer was carrying banned drug Yaba for sale on the sidewalk in front of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd. Shyamli Branch at 15/4 Mirpur Road under Adabar Police Station. When the RAB expedition team arrived at the spot at 16.30 am to verify the veracity of the received news, the accused 1 tried to run away after sensing the presence of the RAB. Md. Irfan (20) was arrested.
The detainee was initially denied interrogation on yaba (drugs). Later, the body of the accused was searched and 7,900 (seven thousand nine hundred) pieces of yaba tablets (drugs) were recovered. Md. Irfan (20) said in the interrogation that there is a huge demand for intoxicants in the current capital and he has been selling illicit drugs (yaba tablets) in different parts of the country including Dhaka.
On the other hand, another RAB-2 expedition team came to know at 08.30 am on the basis of secret information that a suspicious person was waiting for someone on the paved road in front of Palash Pharmacy at Allah Karim Mosque Supermarket under DMP Dhaka Mohammadpur Police Station.
On the basis of the received news, when he reached the place at 08.10 o’clock, he sensed the presence of RAB and tried to run away. Md. Babul Shah (35) was arrested. The arrested Mohammad Babul Shah (35) confessed that there was Phensidyl in the plastic bag in his custody at one stage of interrogation. According to him, 250 (two hundred and fifty) bottles of Fencidil were found inside two plastic bags with a current market value of approximately Rs. 3,75,000 / – (three lakh seventy five thousand).
During interrogation, the arrested accused further said that he had been selling and supplying Fencidil illegally in different places of Bangladesh including Dhaka at a low price by buying cheap Phensidyl in a new way in a fancy way by evading the eyes of the law enforcers of the country.
In addition, RAB-2 will continue such anti-drug operations in the future by verifying important information during interrogation of the arrested accused.
Necessary legal action is being taken in the above matter.
