Bangladesh cricket participant in police custody for possessing yaba drug

A Bangladeshi court docket on Monday despatched a feminine cricketer to 2 days police custody after she was once arrested with 14,000 tablets of widespread drug yaba, as methamphetamine is widely recognized in Asia, a senior police officer mentioned.

Intake of yaba is booming in Bangladesh, with seizures by myself leaping greater than 2,500 % to 29.4 million tablets in 2016 in comparison with 2011. Executive officers say the industry is price an estimated $3 billion yearly.

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Following a tip-off, police arrested Najrin Khan Mukta, 23, within the south-eastern town of Chittagong with the yaba pills in her backpack as she was once leaving for the capital Dhaka on Sunday.

“The metropolitan Justice of the Peace court docket granted two days’ remand following an attraction for 5 days’ remand via police,” mentioned Nirmolendu Bikash Chowdhury, an assistant commissioner of police.

Nur Mohammad, attorney for Mukta, mentioned they’ll search bail.

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Police mentioned Mukta, a pupil of a state-run college who performs within the Dhaka Premier League, admitted that she sourced the ya ba from the close by district of Cox’s Bazar to promote it in Dhaka in affiliation with some others.

Cox’s Bazar is a coastal district neighbouring Myanmar, factories within the northeastern a part of which, in step with analysts, are pushing ya ba in opposition to Bangladesh.

Narcotics officers say a ya ba tablet will also be purchased for round 60 taka ($0.714) in Cox’s Bazar however retails for round 300 taka in Dhaka.

($1 = 84.1 taka)