39kg of ganja and yaba recovered, four detained in two SRB drives in Feni
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SRB has recovered 39kg of ganja, 895 yaba tablets and 10 bottles of Eskuf syrup and detained four people along with a pickup in separate drives in the district’s Sadar and Parshuram upazilas.
SRB-7 sources said a drive was conducted in the Paglirkul area of Parshuram upazila in the district at 12:30am on Wednesday night, acting on a tip-off. Two people were detained while trying to flee from the north side of Noapara Mosque on the road from Rajeshpur Bazar to Subar Bazar. They are Md Yakub, 45, and Abu Bakkar Siddique, 48. Later, 10kg of ganja, 895 yaba tablets and 10 bottles of Eskuf syrup were recovered after searching the plastic sacks they had left behind. The estimated value of the recovered drugs is Tk 3.80 lakh.
SRB further said that on Wednesday morning, a pickup was searched after setting up a temporary check-post on the Chattogram-Dhaka highway in the Paschim Rampur area of Feni Sadar. Driver Md Shahed Ali Rimon, 22, and Alauddin Sohag, 20, were detained when they tried to flee. Later, 29kg of ganja in 13 bundles, with an estimated value of Tk 2.90 lakh, was recovered from two plastic sacks in the back of the pickup. The pickup was also seized at that time.
Mosleh Uddin, assistant superintendent of police and assistant director (media) of SRB-7, Chattogram, told BSS that the four detainees, the recovered drugs and the seized pickup have been handed over to the police station concerned.
