One held with 76000 Yaba in city
Tuesday, 21 July 2015
Police in a drive arrested a man along with 76000 pieces of Yaba tablets from an office of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) at Wari in the capital on Tuesday morning. The arrestee was identified as Abu Bakar Siddique. Tipped off, police, led by officer in-charge Tapan Chandra Shaha of Wari Police Station, conducted a drive in the BTCL office housed on the ground floor of Wari sub-post office around 8:30am and arrested Abu Bakar. Later, the law enforcers seized 76000 pieces of Yaba tablets from his possession. Joint Commissioner of Detective Branch (DB) of Police Monirul Islam disclosed this at a press briefing held at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Station Media Centre. Police is also looking for BTCL employee M Mostofa, 41, who fled the scene sensing the presence of police during the drive, added Monirul. During preliminary interrogation, Abu Bakar reportedly said that he regularly brought Yaba consignments in the capital from Cox’s Bazar and a gang used the BTCL office for this business, according to a news agency.