In a special operation, Kaukhali police station in Pirojpur seized 60 grams of cannabis and five yaba tablets.[1] Police made the arrests in the early hours of Saturday 15 August.[1] One account named them as Sanjib Das, 35, a night guard at the women’s degree college and the son of Niranjan Das of Aspaddi village in Kaukhali, and Md Shahin Hossain, 34, the son of Anwar Hossain of Saturia village in neighbouring Rajapur upazila.[1] Sub-inspector Md Mohiuddin of Kaukhali station led the raid.[1]
That account said officers arrested the night guard Sanjib Das with 60 grams of cannabis inside the women’s degree college.[1] The same account said officers arrested Md Shahin the same night with five yaba tablets at a rented house in the Bashri area.[1] An account citing the station’s first information report said police learned at 2:55 a.m. on 14 August that people were buying and selling drugs on a balcony in front of a room inside the women’s college in Kaukhali Sadar union, and raided the spot at 3:05 a.m.[2] That account said Sanjib Das, 35, and Md Shahin Khandaker, 34, were detained as they tried to flee, and that 60 grams of cannabis wrapped in white paper and five pale-orange yaba tablets were taken from the right pocket of Das’s shorts.[2] A search of Khandaker found no drugs, that account said, though police claimed he had been helping Das buy and sell them.[2] The first information report estimated the market value of the recovered drugs at 7,500 taka.[2]
Officer-in-charge Md Anwar Hossain said cases had been filed under the narcotics control law and the men had been sent to court.[1] Police said separate cases were filed against the two under the narcotics control law, and that they were then sent to court.[1] The first-information-report account said a case was filed under section 36(1) of the Narcotics Control Act 2018.[2] The station officer said the men were sent to Pirojpur court on Saturday.[2]
