Huge amount of Phensedyl seized
Four held; govt labels used on vehicles to avoid suspicion
A large haul of Phensedyl bottles that were seized by Detective Branch of Police from the capital's Kakrail yesterday. The drugs were found hidden inside a covered-van falsely labelled to be of the Directorate General of Food, inset top, to avoid suspicion. Inset bottom, four alleged drug traders arrested with the vehicle. Photo: STAR
Detective Branch (DB) of Police seized 10,000 bottles of Phensedyl hidden inside a covered-van and a microbus, falsely labelled to be of the Directorate General of Food, before the capital's Kakrail Mosque on Sunday. Four alleged drug traders -- Masudur Rahman, 25, Sohag Bepari, 30, Selim Javed, 35, and Kabir Hossain, 25 -- were arrested while unloading sacks of the illegal drug. "The sacks, having labels of the directorate, were stuffed inside a false wall of the covered van. The walls had been painted afterwards," said DB Additional Commissioner Mashiur Rahman. The sacks were supposed to be delivered to local agents at Jatrabari, Motijheel, Sayedabad, Gendaria and Ramna, he said. The arrestees admitted in preliminary interrogation that the drugs belonged to a drug smuggler of Benapole named Dada Bhai, said Mashiur. Every month they smuggled several consignments of the drug from India through the Benapole border and brought it to the capital, he said. They used stickers of different ministries, including that of home and health ministry, on the vehicles so that law enforcers did not feel it necessary to check the vehicles, added Mashiur. He said the arrestees got the sacks from the directorate and DB was trying to trace out the directorate's staff who might be involved with the drug traders.
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