Moulvibazar Sadar Model Police arrested three alleged drug traders and seized 8,000 yaba tablets, Tk 440,000 in alleged drug-sale proceeds and a private car. The operation was conducted on Monday afternoon on Srimangal Road in Moulvibazar town after police received confidential information about a suspected large yaba consignment, according to a report published on August 4.

Police said the suspects were travelling in a white private car toward the Moulvibazar-Dhaka bus stand area to receive the consignment. A team led by Sub-Inspector Ripton Purkayastha stopped the vehicle near Panchami Washing Centre. Based on information provided by driver Murad Ali Milon during initial questioning, police detained his two alleged associates, Manik Ahmad and Sabbir Ahmad, near the SMS bus counter.

Police searched the suspects and the vehicle in front of witnesses, recovering the tablets from four tape-wrapped packets inside two shopping bags. The three detainees have been named as Manik Ahmad, 32, and Sabbir Ahmad, 26, of Zakiganj in Sylhet, and Murad Ali Milon, 45, of Rajnagar in Moulvibazar. A regular case was filed under the Narcotics Control Act, 2018.