Law enforcers have arrested three people with yaba, a locally made firearm, a cartridge and CCTV cameras in a joint operation in the Sudharam Model police station area of Noakhali.
Subrata Sarkar Shuvo, deputy director of the Noakhali district office of the Department of Narcotics Control, confirmed this in a press release on Tuesday afternoon.
They were arrested in a joint operation by SRB-11, the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) and police at 9am the same day.
Those arrested are Mamun Ur Rashid, 37, son of the late Yusuf Mia of East Ewazbalia village; Abdul Mannan, 27, son of Md Abdul Hanif of Charubanu village; and Manzur Rahman Sakil, 38, son of Mafizur Rahman of Baraipur village.
DNC sources said that, acting on a tip-off, a joint force led by Md Habibur Rahman, sub-inspector at the DNC’s Noakhali district office, DAD Amalesh Bain of the SRB-11 CPC-3 camp and sub-inspector Sumon Banik of Sudharam Model police station raided Mamun Ur Rashid’s autorickshaw garage at East Ewazbalia village in ward 5 of Ewazbalia union.
During the raid, 44 yaba pills, one locally made one-shooter pipe gun, one live lead cartridge, three mobile phones, equipment for taking yaba and three CCTV or IP cameras used to evade the notice of law enforcers were seized from a rest room inside the garage.
In preliminary questioning, the arrested men said cameras had been installed in the room inside the garage to evade law enforcers and the room was used as a den for taking and selling yaba. The pipe gun and cartridge had been kept in order to establish dominance in the area, officials said they were told.
Subrata Sarkar Shuvo also said preparations were under way to file two separate cases against the accused at Sudharam Model police station under the relevant sections of the Narcotics Control Act, 2018, and the Arms Act, 1878. Operations are continuing on the basis of information obtained in questioning, he said.
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