Muajjin held for Yaba trading
Detectives arrested a Muslim cleric (muajjin) and two others in the capital on Tuesday on charge of peddling Yaba tablets and recovered 1,680 tablets from their possession.
The detained are Mohammad Sultan, 26, muajjin of Baitul Aman Kuwaiti Mosque at the capital's Pallabi, Aftab Miah alias Arif, 54, and Shahin Miah, 21. Hailing from Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, Sultan has been employed at the mosque for the last one year.
Hasan Arafat, assistant commissioner of Detective Branch, said they first arrested Arif and Shahin at Khilkhet with 220 Yaba tablets.
"On information from Arif and Shahin, we arrested Sultan who later admitted that he had been running the business of Yaba tablets for years. We also found 1,460 Yaba tablets inside his personal trunk kept in the mosque.
"Sultan's younger brother Mohammad Ayub alias Saiful used to smuggle Yaba tablets from Myanmar and send those to Sultan in Dhaka."
Sultan was a wholesaler of Yaba tablets and did not sell less than 200 tablets, said another official. "At least 20 people had been collecting Yaba tablets from Sultan for retailing."
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