Drug trade goes on unabated in Sylhet

A strong syndicate of drug peddlers is allegedly back in business at
around 50 spots in the sylhet through an alleged nexus of some law
enforcers.
The syndicate mainly runs business in connivance with some members of
law enforcement and narcotics control department.
It bribes a large sum of money that mainly comes from the mastermind
and godfathers, including some political leaders, a source from police
said.
The members of the syndicate store drugs in Railgate and Kodomtoly
areas, from where they supply  the sylhet area.
The drug peddlers impersonating police officers or Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) members operate their business.
Deputy Director of the Department of Narcotic Control (DNC) admitted
that the practice takes place. “We have information that some members
of law enforcers are involved in this trade; they are misusing their
power,” he said.
Middle and lower middle class families now commonly consume Yaba,
which was largely used by high-class family children or private
university students earlier, since the drug market expanded recently.
The demand for buprenorphine (injection) is also increasing,
especially in one parts of the city.
Yaba is mostly popular in posh areas like Upashor and Ambarkhana. The
demand for cannabis and heroin is highest in Railgate and station road
areas.
Drug users sit in queue there to feed their addiction until the market
ends with the sunrise. Drug sales also start in Pular muk as darkness
falls.
Visiting the area the correspondent found some teenagers selling small
packets of cannabis. They said they get them for Tk5 per packet and
they sell them for Tk30-100.
Sources in the area said Salah control the drug syndicate of the area
through three accomplices.
Several officials of different police stations under the sylhet
Metropolitan Police told the New Nation that they arrested some law
enforcers on charges of harbouring drug pushers several times.
A sub-inspector of Dakshin Surma Police Station said during an
intimate conversation, a lawman confided to him that he was operating
a drugs racket in the one part of the city.
Sylhet Deputy Commissioner Shohidul Islam said they would increase
vigilance, so that no one can escape the hands of law, be he a
policeman or a criminal.
(Our Corespondent)

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