Three arrested with 26, 880 cans of banned beer in Kalapara

Banned beer cans seized in Kalapara on Saturday 29 June 2024.

Patuakhali: Members of the Kalapara Narcotics Directorate have arrested three people with 26,880 cans of banned beer from a covered van at Kalapara in Patuakhali. On Friday around 4 o'clock in the night after passing Patuakhali Toll Plaza area from Kalapara, Md. Bashirul Islam (28), Md. Mehedi Hasan Rabbi (26) and Md. Rubel Munshi (27) were arrested along with covered van by the Narcotics Control Directorate.

Among them, Bashirul Islam and Mehdi Hasan Rabbi are working in the Chinese contractor "Oriental Pearl" of Kalapara Payra thermal power station. In addition, Md. Rubel Munshi is said to be the driver of the covered van.

Narcotics Department Assistant Director Md. Enayet Hossain said that based on secret information, they came to know that a large shipment of drugs from Payarabandar is going to Dhaka in a covered van. Based on such news, the members of the Narcotics Control Directorate signaled to stop the covered van on the road adjacent to the four lanes of the Kalapara-Kuakata highway, they continued without obeying the signal. Later they were arrested in the toll booth area of Patuakhali after being followed by a covered van. The recovered beers are those of the Chinese company "Sinthao". The beers were being smuggled in a large covered van called Hawladar Cargo. The estimated value of recovered beer is Tk 2 crore 15 lakh. The members of the Narcotics Control Directorate believe that this consignment of drugs has arrived in Parabandar by sea from China. - Gofran Biswas Palash