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Man detained with Yaba at Dhaka airport
Dhaka, 15 Jan - The Airport Armed Police Battalion (APBn) detained a man with 2,009 pieces of yaba tablets concealed inside his body on Wednesday evening.
The detainee was identified as Md. Shah Alam Sheikh, 41.
Acting on a tip-off, a team from the APBn conducted a drive in the northern area of the Balaka Building at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and detained him.
During interrogation, he admitted that he was carrying the yaba tablets. Later, 2,009 pieces of yaba were recovered from inside the rectum of the detainee.
He was transporting the yaba tablets on a domestic Bangladesh Airlines flight (BG-434) from Cox’s Bazar to Dhaka.
A case was later filed against him under Section 36(1), Subsection 10(b) of the Narcotics Control Act 2018 at the Airport Police Station.
Authorities said that Alam Sheikh has been involved in drug trafficking and sales for a long time.