The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has carried out an anti-narcotics raid on a house in the capital’s Bashundhara residential area in Bhatara that Additional DIG Abdullah Al Zahir lets out. A total of 84 people were detained in the raid: 58 young men and 26 young women.
The raid on the two-and-a-half-storey building next to the police outpost of POHS 1 housing began on Monday night and continued until Tuesday afternoon.
Shafiqul Islam, DMP additional commissioner (detective), said police officer Abdullah Al Zahir had let out the house. Drug use and illegal DJ parties had been going on there for a long time. A large quantity of alcohol, synthetic drugs, shisha and beer was recovered in the raid.
Elias Kabir, deputy commissioner of the DMP’s Uttara division, said rooms in the house were rented out through the online marketplace Airbnb. Young men and women from different parts of the country booked online to take part in the parties. Additional DIG Abdullah Al Zahir received 70 percent of the income from the parties, and his staff took 30 percent.
Elias Kabir added that the house had two hosts for all the parties. One of them, Mahabul Alam, has been detained.
Additional DIG Abdullah Al Zahir works in the maintenance and repair branch of Police Headquarters. He did not answer several phone calls seeking comment on the raid.
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