Chattogram Bureau: Dhaka, Sept-11,
Sajjad Hossain came to Dhaka from Teknaf with 70 betel nuts. After
peeling, 20 betel nuts were found, but the rest contained yaba pills wrapped in
scotch tape. Detectives say drug traffickers are changing one strategy after
another to fool their eyes.
Betel nut is one of the ingredients of eating betel leaf. After
peeling, the hard part inside is eaten with the betel leaf. Drug traffickers
have chosen betel nut to smuggle yaba this time. If any one looks at it with
the naked eye, it looks like betel nut, but inside it is the destructive drug
yaba.
After peel betel nut, the inner part was removed. Then the yaba was
inserted into the piece of polythene and wrapped with scotch tape. The betel
nut has been made again with a pair of shells.
Sajjad Hossain, a yaba trader, was bringing 150 yaba from Teknaf in
Cox's Bazar to Dhaka by inserting 150 yaba in each of the 50 betel nuts.
Detective police have arrested him from Vijayanagar in the capital. He used to
bring yaba from Cox's Bazar to the capital and sell it wholesale and retail.
Manas Kumar Poddar, deputy commissioner of detective police, said they
were very clever. These are being
brought from the border.
He added, drug traffickers are changing one strategy after another to fool
their eyes.
Manas Kumar Poddar further said that they are using various methods to
avoid our eyes.
Police are conducting an operation to nab other members of the Yaba
smuggling syndicate inside Betel Nut.
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