Three female drug traffickers held with Yaba tablets in city

The Detective Branch (DB) of Gulshan Division under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested three alleged female drug traffickers with 6,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from Shonir Akhra area in the capital.

The arrested are Rokeya Khatun, 55, Khadija Akter Sathi, 25, and Momtaj Begum, 54, a press release issued by the DMP’s media and public relations division said here today. Based on secret information, a DB team of Gulshan Division conducted a raid  in Shonir Akhra area at 7:10pm on Tuesday and arrested the women along with  the contraband drugs, it said.

During the initial interrogation, the trio confessed that they had been collecting Yaba tablets from Cox’s Bazar for a long time and selling those in different areas of the capital city, according to the release.  Process of taking legal actions against the arrested persons is underway, it added.