Cop held for selling seized yaba pills

Detectives arrested a police constable for allegedly selling off seized yaba pills to an alleged drug dealer in Mymensingh Court area last night.

Al Amin, 28, was posted with Chief Judicial Magistrate Court of Mymensingh, police said. 

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Earlier yesterday, detectives arrested “drug dealer” Abdul Motaleb, 50, with 12,000 yaba pills at the town's Police Lines Uttara.

In his statement before a judge, Motaleb said Al Amin sold him yaba pills which were seized during drives and were kept with a court as evidence, said Ashiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Mymensingh DB, quoting Motaleb's statement.

Detectives then arrested AL Amin from the court area around 9:30pm and were interrogating him at the DB office, the OC said. 

Court inspector Kamruzzaman Talukder and sub-inspectors Saiful Islam and Monir were closed to the Mymensingh Police Lines for their alleged negligence in duty in this connection, he said.

“We are investigating involvements of others in the matter,” the OC said.