Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug dealers, including a teenaged girl, and recovered nearly 2,000 Yaba pills that they had swallowed to avoid detection by law enforcers, from the Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area of the capital on Sunday night.
The arrestees were identified as Md Russel (26) and his accomplice Sanjida Akhtar (18) .
An operational team of RAB-2 battalion headquarters obtained information on Sunday night at around 10:35 pm that two drug dealers were coming to Dhaka with a consignment of drugs.
Based on the information, the operational team of the elite force set up a check post on the street in front of Pangu Hospital under Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station.
While they were implementing a search of a passenger bus, two passengers towards the back of the bus started acting very suspiciously and were detained for questioning. During interrogation, Russel admitted that he was carrying Yaba in his stomach.
Russell was then taken to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where further tests including an X-ray revealed the presence of a palm-shaped polythene-wrapped Yaba packets in the stomach of arrested Russel. —UNB
