Female drug dealers now reign supreme

Desk Report
Over 100 listed female drug dealers reign supreme in the illegal business in the capital despite a police crackdown against Yaba and other deadly narcotics.
Detective sources said female drug peddlers are controlling the major part of the drug underworld in Dhaka, reports Daily Sun.
The number of female drug traders is increasing as they can easily pass through police checkpoints, they added.
According to the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC), over 3,000 drug peddlers are still active across the country – nearly 300 of them in the capital.
Sources at law enforcement agencies said over 100 females are engaged in drug dealing or smuggling in Dhaka. They control the major portion of the drug market.
Police said law enforces round up female drug peddlers, but they easily come out of jail on bail.
They said in most cases, female dealers now run drug business as they can easily take drugs from place to place, dodging eyes of law enforcers. DNC sources said drugs are smuggled into Bangladesh from Myanmar and India. Teknaf border of Cox’s Bazar is the major route for Yaba smuggling.
Yaba is usually smuggled into Bangladesh through 45 routes in Cox’s Bazar which borders Rakhine state of Myanmar.
The DNC intelligence said a total of 37 Yaba factories are being operated in the border town of Mongdu in Myanmar.
A high police official said, “We’ve made a shortlist of notorious drug traders in the capital and instructed the crime division to crack them down.”
The list includes 12 women, some of them wanted in over one dozen cases.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said police conduct drives on the listed drug spots in the capital and pick up those found in possession of narcotics.
“Drug peddlers have no place in Dhaka city,” he said, adding that by turn, all the branded drug stops in the capital would be demolished.
“We’ve drawn up a list of drug dealers based on intelligence agencies’ information. They will be brought to book,” he said, adding that drug dealers have to pay for their misdeeds.
At least 240 suspected drug dealers have been killed in ‘gunfights’ across the country since the beginning of the crackdown.