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Couple held with 2,700 pieces of yaba in Ctg
Greenwatch Desk
Drugs
2026-05-30, 10:06pm
District Narcotics Control Department today apprehended a Rohingya couple and recovered 2,700 pieces of yaba from their possession during a drive near Muzaffarabad College on the western side of the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Patiya upazila of the district.
Patiya Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Ziaul Haque confirmed the arrest.
The arrestees are Md. Jane Alam, 26 and his wife Sufaira Begum, 24. They reside in the Leda Old Rohingya Refugee Camp located in Teknaf Upazila of Cox's Bazar.
On information, the drive was carried out at 8:30am in a passenger bus en route to Chattogram. As searched, the contraband was recovered from the couple, said sources at the District Narcotics Control Department, reports BSS.
Later, an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) from the Narcotics Control Department filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act with the Patiya Police Station as the complainant, said OC Ziaul Haque.
Following legal procedures, the couple was produced before the court today, added the OC.