A truck assistant was arrested early Monday in the capital for carrying contraband Phensedyl.
The detective branch police arrested Towhinur Islam, 21, assistant of a maize-laden truck from Dinajpur, near Shah Ali of Mirpur in the city and seized 1,150 bottles of Phensedyl.
The police said a DB police team, led by Dhaka Metropolitan Police senior assistant commissioner Sadira Khatun, on information, challenged the truck with her force at about 2:30am.
The truck-driver escaped the scene before the detectives could get down from their vehicle.
They searched the vehicle and found the bottles of Phensedyl in a gunnysack and arrested the assistant.
Sadira said the bottles of banned syrup were being transported from Hili in bordering Dinajpur and they also seized the truck.
'We have arrested a carrier only, but we are on drive to arrest the cartel,' Sadira said.
Towhinur Islam, who used to do farming in a remote village in Dinajpur, however, denied his involvement in transporting banned codeine syrup.
He claimed the truck driver, Mohammad Shamim, 30, might have loaded the bottles in the truck.
Source : New Age
