Targeting users in upscale neighbourhoods, organised syndicates have been smuggling in high-priced crystal meth over the last few years, much to the concern of law enforcers and narcotics control officials.
The highly addictive drug, also nicknamed ice, arrives in Bangladesh from Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar, and the syndicates often use expatriates travelling back home as carriers, according to investigators.
At least two to three consignments of the drug, each weighing around 0.5kg-1.5kg, have arrived every month over the last three years through the country s various airports, mostly from Malaysia.
It is sold to affluent people living in upscale neighborhoods 10g at minimum Tk 1 lakh, said Detective Branch officials.
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Detectives claimed to have arrested five alleged muggers in connection with killing cable operator businessman Hamidul Islam near High Court in Dhaka on Saturday night. A team of detectives (Ramna Division) arrested them yesterday, during raids at Mugda and Kamrangirchar area, AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, told a press briefing at
He is not an accused in the case. We will try to find out that he saw on that day, he added.
Police earlier said they were looking for him as he helped the lone accused, Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, to carry the victim out of the house and he might know something.
A medical officer and a staffer of Anwar Khan Medical College Hospital, where the girl was taken first, said Fardin along with another young man brought the girl in a car.
Doctors said she died before they reached the hospital.
A forensic doctor at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after post mortem said they found evidence of rape and injury marks on the victim s body. He suspected that the girl died due to hemorrhagic shock and excessive bleeding.
Police will seek a 10-day remand for Fardin Iftekhar Dihan in connection with the case filed over the murder of a 17-year-old after rape at a flat in Dhaka's Kalabagan area yesterday. The victim was an O-level student of Mastermind English Medium School. Sajjadur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Ramna Division, said this while briefing reporters