2 held with 38,000 Yaba tablets

Staff Correspondent, Chattogram: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members have recovered 38,000 Yaba tablets worth Tk two crore from a covered van from Shaheednagar of the city.

Rab also arrested two persons in this connection. The arrestees were identified as Md Abu Taher, 40, and Md Alam, 24.

Mimtanur Rahman, Senior Assistant Director (Media) of Rab-7, said acting on a tip-off, the elite force team set up a checkpost in Bayazid Bostami area and started searching vehicles.

At one point, law enforcers challenged a covered van and recovered the Yaba pills after searching it. Later, they arrested the duo, he said.

A case has been filed with Bayazid Bostami.


risingbd/ Chattogram/June 18, 2018/Rezaul/Mukul