Authorities must step up to control crime and ensure justice

Government must rehabilitate them, ensure their rights

The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) arrests a Nigerian national with a new type of drug known as “Crystal Meth or Ice” in his possession from Dhaka’s Khilkhet.

Nine persons are held with cannabis from different areas in Dhaka during a drive conducted by the Department of Narcotics Control.

As many as 29,000 anti-narcotic committees in various educational institutions up to degree level work to drum up public opinion against drugs aimed at mainly saving the new generation from abuse of narcotics.

Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) is launching a campaign against drugs from today to protect the next generation from the threat, its Director General Jamal Uddin Ahmed says.

In the first nine months of this year, more than 60 percent of the accused got acquitted in drug-related cases, and narcotics control officials blame the poor conviction rate mainly on the faulty charge sheets and a lack of witnesses. The scenarios were almost similar in the previous two years.

Narcotics department has detained three persons including an alleged wife of a police officer from Banasree in Dhaka with 10,000 pieces of contraband yaba.

A joint team of Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), Chittagong Metro Sub-zone and Bangladesh Coast Guard recover 6.80 lakh pieces of yaba tablets from the outer anchorage of Chittagong port and detained two persons.

WE are deeply concerned by a recent report of this newspaper revealing that about 50 lakh Yaba pills are trafficked into the country and consumed every day, most of which come from Myanmar.