Police in Jashore’s Chougacha have arrested four drug dealers with 40 yaba tablets and 550 grams of cannabis.
According to police, they arrested the four in drives at various places in the upazila. On Friday, Chougacha police station SI Abdus Sattar, acting on secret information, conducted a drive on the Chougacha-Purapara road in the Kamalpur intersection area of the upazila, and detained a man named Rumel, alias Rubel (32), recovering 40 yaba tablets from him. Rumel is the son of Hazrat Ali of Bhatpara village in Mahespur upazila of Jhenaidah district.
Police later arrested Abdullah Molla (38) and Jasim Uddin Mondol (55) from the Tengurpur intersection area of the upazila, recovering 200 grams of cannabis from them. Abdullah Molla is the son of Liyakat Molla of Chandkhali (North Garer Abad) village in Khulna’s Paikgacha upazila, and Jasim Uddin Mondol the son of the late Roshan Ali Mondol of Rajapur (East Para) village in Chougacha upazila.
Chougacha police also arrested a man named Abdus Samad (62) in a drive in the Andarkota area of the Tengurpur-Purapara road, recovering 350 grams of cannabis from him. Abdus Samad is the son of the late Harej Gazi of Pantipara village in Chougacha upazila.
Three separate cases have been filed against the arrested under the Narcotics Control Act at Chougacha police station. The charges are yet to be tested in court.
Chougacha police station OC Mamunur Rashid said special drives to curb drugs, terrorism and crime would continue.
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