Yaba now coming in via India: Ctg DIG

Due to strict vigilance and continuous drives against drug trafficking by law enforcement agencies in Cox’s Bazar, drug peddlers have adopted new techniques and are smuggling yaba to the country through the Indian border, said Khandker Golam Faruq, deputy inspector general (DIG) of police (Chattogram Range), yesterday.

The DIG said this while addressing a monthly crime conference of Chattogram Range, held at Chattogram District Police Lines in port city’s Halishahar area.

“We have information that yaba peddling through Cox’s Bazar border has decreased because of the ongoing drives. As a result, the [yaba] pills are now being trafficked through Indian border and entering Bangladesh via adjacent districts,” he said.

“I have asked the superintendents of police in Cumilla, Brahmanbaria and other districts to remain alert in this regard,” the DIG said.

At the meeting, DIG Faruq also gave directives to the SPs to keep their offices and other police establishments clean to prevent the breeding of Aedes mosquitoes.

Additional DIG of Chattogram Range Abul Faiz, SPs of 11 districts under Chattogram Range and senior police officials were present at the conference, among others.

The DIG also awarded 18 police officers of different districts for their outstanding works in the month of July.