DHAKA, Nov 6, 2024(BSS) - Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has seized 31,000 pieces of Tapentadol and 1004 pieces of contraband Yaba tablets from special check posts in city’s Kotwali and Sutrapur areas.

Police also arrested three drug traders from the check posts at that time. They are-Sumon Chandra Dutta, 45, Shah Poran, 21, and Nasibur Rahman alias Nasib,46, a DMP press release said here today.

A team of Kotwali Thana set up a check-post on Babu Bazar Bridge on Wednesday night and halted a private car there. After searching the private car, police recovered two cartoons containing 31000 pieces of Tapenadol tablets worth about Taka 15,50,000 and arrested car driver Shah Poran and its passenger Sumon Dutta from the spot.

A case was filed with Kotwali Thana in this connection. The arrested persons confessed to the police that they have been trading the drugs after collecting it from the bordering areas for long.

The Tapentadol tablet is a listed drug by the Department of Narcotics Control since July 8 in 2020 and the drug users take it as substitute of Yaba tablets.

Sutrapur Thana Police in another drive arrested one Nasibur Rahman from a check post at Hanif Tower and seized 1004 Yaba tablets from him. The arrested drug peddler told the police that he has been selling drugs specially yaba tablets in Sutrapur area after collecting it from different areas of the capital.

Another case was also lodged with Sutrapur Thana in this connection.