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23 jailed, 1,200 Yaba seized

24 January 2011, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained 25 people and seized 1,200 Yaba tablets in a crackdown at Uttara in the city last night. Among the detained, 23 were at first sentenced to six months in jail and fined Tk one lakh each, then in default, finally sentenced to nine months in jail by a mobile court. Magistrate Anwar Pasha told The Daily Star that among the 23 accused by the mobile court, some of the men were traders and the remaining were buyers. He added that Rab conducted the raids, beginning around 9:00pm, at different places in Uttara.