Yaba smuggling in Cox's Bazar could not be stopped in any way, as the members of the Yaba Syndicate are changing the smuggling routes constantly to avoid arrest.
The Yaba shipments are now being smuggled through the inaccessible mountain path evading the eyes of the law enforcement agencies because of the strict guard on road and sea routs.
Cox's Bazar district Detective Branch of Police (DB) seized such a consignment of 1-lakh pieces of Yaba tablets from Ramu Upazila of Cox’s bazar is the wee hours of Saturday.
The DB members arrested Hafeez Ahmed, 35, a CNG auto rickshaw driver with those yaba tablets from Eidgarh, a remote hilly area in Ramu upazila at the time, while the CNG used for smuggling was also seized.
Yaba, a deadly drug, is constantly being smuggled into Bangladesh from neighboring Myanmar to destroy the youths of the country. Bangladeshi law enforcement agencies are working relentlessly in various ways to protect the country from this drug.
Until now, Yaba has been smuggled by road and sea, but the smugglers are now changing tactics due to the strict surveillance of the new team of the district police as well as the tightening of security on those routes.
Cox's Bazar Superintendent of Police Md. Hasanuzzaman said the new team of Cox's Bazar district police is working on various strategies with the use of information technology to control all crimes, including human and drug trafficking.
District Detective Branch of Police OC Sheikh Mohammad Ali said a check post was set up at Chenuchhara on the Eidgaon-Eidgarh road on Saturday morning on the basis of secret information. Then the CNG ayto rickshaw coming towards Eidgarh was stopped and searching the vehicle 1-lakh Yaba tablets were found inside the engine box.
Cox's Bazar Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration) Md. Rafiqul Islam said in a press briefing on Saturday afternoon that drug traders are coming up with new routes for smuggling Yaba. Their campaign to identify these roads will continue. Action will be taken after finding out who is responsible for smuggling of those seized yaba tablets, he added.
Cox's Bazar Superintendent of Police Md. Hasanuzzaman said, “Just as drug traffickers are changing their tactics for trafficking, we are also deploying various techniques to arrest them with the help of modern technology”.