Cop held with 6.8 lakh pieces of yaba
STAFF REPORTER, Ctg
A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) -7 arrested a police assistant sub-inspector and his driver and seized 6.8 lakh pieces of contraband yaba tablets from their possession at Lalpole in Feni district on Saturday night. The estimated market price of seized yaba tablets is Tk27.20 crore.
The arrestees were identified as Mohmmad Mahfuzur Rahman, 35, an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Police, and his driver Zaved Ali, 29. Mahfuzur Rahman is working with the Special Branch (SB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) under the
technical section and bearing the ID number BP 8001063119.
Meanwhile, the Special Branch (SB) of
police suspended its assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Mahfuzur Rahman yesterday in connection with the yaba seizure.
During the drive, RAB members also seized Tk7 lakh, four mobile phones and eight debit cards. A ledger book containing information of transaction of Tk 28,44,13,000 with 14 people was also seized.
Sohel Mahmud, assistant director of RAB-7, said that the RAB patrol team conducted a drive after getting information that a private car was running fast after hitting a child at Lalpur. The team stopped the vehicle and searching the Allion car (Dhaka Metro Ga 17-7181). After finding Yaba tablets worth Tk 27.20 crore, they arrested ASI Mahfuzur and his driver. The ASI was carrying the large consignment of yaba tablets from Coxs Bazar to Dhaka. The
arrestees were later taken to RAB-7 office in Patenga of Chittagong. RAB sources said Mahfuzur has confessed to them that an ASI of Coxs Bazar DB police,
Mohammad Belal, and Mohammad Ashik, in-charge and sub-inspector of Kumira outpost of police, gave him the yaba tablets to transport to the capital. In Dhaka, the yaba consignment were to be received by a lawyer named Zakir Hossain, a High Court clerk named Mohammad Motaleb, and Shaheen, Kashem and Gias, constables of Special Branch (SB) of police.
The RAB assistant director said ASI Mahfuzur served with the Teknaf police station in Coxs Bazar for two years from 2012. During that period, he had built a rapport with yaba traders and lager got involved in a full-fledged yaba business.
UNB adds: When contacted, Assistant Inspector General (AIG-Media) of Police Headquarters Nazrul Islam confirmed that the SB headquarters has already suspended ASI Mahfuzur Rahman in connection with the recovery of the Yaba consignment.
An inquiry team from the SB HQs was sent to the spot.
On the basis of the inquiry report, further steps will be taken against him, the AIG said. Nazrul said, If any member of the police gets involved in any kind of crime, we consider him or her as an offender. The police department wont give any protection to any criminal, the AIG (Media) added.
