A top drug dealer and a doctor were arrested from Basila Garden City, Mohammadpur, in an operation by the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC).
This information was disclosed in a press conference at the department on Tuesday.
On 11 November, a raiding team was formed under the supervision of DNC’s Dhaka Metro North Deputy Director Shamim Ahmed, comprising Inspector Abdullah Al Mamun, staff of the divisional circle, and two police members temporarily assigned to the department.
The team encircled flat number 2/B on the 3rd floor of Shanta Tower, Block-C, North South Road, Basila Garden City at 5:40pm.
The raiding team entered the flat with two witnesses- Md Riaz Ahmed, 35, and Md Shibbir Ahmed, 29. From a room on the western side, the flat owner Dr Nafis Sadiq, 30, and top drug dealer of Geneva Camp Md Sajahan, 25, were detained.
Upon interrogation, Nafis confessed and took out 50 pieces of Yaba (5 grams) from the drawer of the reading table.
Subsequently, police found a total of 1,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from 5 blue zipper packets were found from Sajahan while searching his body.
A total of 1,050 pieces of amphetamine-based Yaba tablets were recovered.
