The police have found links to Chhatra League leaders’ involvement in yaba trading on the Dhaka University campus, after the police – with help of the DU authorities – arrested seven people yesterday near the university’s Mohsin Hall and seized 1,250 yaba pills from their possession.
“Acting on a tip-off, we arrested them near the Mohsin Hall when they were returning from the hall after buying yaba at around 1:45am,” said Shahbagh police station Officer-in-Charge Sirajul Islam. Two CNG-run auto-rickshaws and a motorcycle – which were used by the arrestees – were also seized at the time, he added.
A case has been filed under the Narcotics Control Act 2013 with the police station in this connection, Sirajul added.
The arrestees are Subroto Kumar Bhowmik, Sanjoy Biwswas Sujon, Md Bachchu, Shahidul Islam, Kabul Kha, Akbar and Kazi Shahidul Islam. None of them are students of the university.
The OC said the detained men confessed to purchasing the yaba pills from Wasim, Mehedi, Maksud, Titu and Suman – all residential students of the hall who live in rooms 311, 337 and 338.
The names mentioned by the arrestees include Chhatra League’s Mohsin Hall unit president Maksud Rana Mithu – who resides in room 337, as well as Chhatra League’s DU unit organising secretary Maksudur Rahman – who resides in room 338.
Although the arrestees mentioned Mithu’s name immediately after they were arrested, they later reportedly omitted the name during police interrogation, sources said.
Seeking anonymity, a Chhatra League leader of the hall unit admitted to the Dhaka Tribune that Mithu had been running yaba business in the hall for the past year, using room 311 to sell the drugs to customers. The drug was brought from Teknaf to be sold to different yaba distributors in the city, he added.
However, Mithu and Maksud both denied allegations of running the drug racket in the hall, terming the claims as a conspiracy against them.
Yesterday’s arrests were made on a tip-off, following which Shahbagh police station SI Sohel Rana stationed a team of law enforcers in front of the Basunia gate near the hall in the wee hours. The team stopped and searched two auto-rickshaws and a motorbike coming out of the hall gate to find the yaba pills with the passengers.
Mohsin Hall Provost Prof Ali Akkass, on the other hand, confirmed the involvement of DU students and Chhatra League activists in the incident. “Surely the students were involved with it; otherwise how could outsiders come to the hall corridors for this business?
“A formal letter will be sent to the students of those particular rooms and appropriate action will be taken against them,” the provost added.
Amzad Ali, acting proctor of the university, also assured of taking steps against those involved.
When asked about the possible involvement of Chhatra League men, the student wing’s DU unit General Secretary Omar Sharif claimed that Chhatra League activists could not be involved in the yaba trade. He, however, said action would be taken against any “misguided” activist.
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