TBM Report
The Cox’s Bazar District Police executed a major anti-narcotics operation at the central bus terminal late Friday (July 10) night, seizing a massive cache of 92,000 Yaba tablets from a Dhaka-bound luxury sleeper coach. Law enforcement officials apprehended the bus assistant, identified as 23-year-old Sheikh Ratul, red-handed inside the vehicle. However, capitalizing on the initial operational commotion, the primary driver managed to evade police cordons and fled the crime scene. The calculated intercept represents one of the largest synthetic drug seizures in the coastal district during recent weeks.
Acting on a high-fidelity intelligence tip-off regarding cross-district narcotics trafficking, a specialized tactical team from the Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Thana set up strategic checkpoints near the central terminal. Officers boarded a long-distance sleeper coach operated by Saintmartin Travels. Upon a meticulously conducted structural inspection of the cabin, the police team discovered the contraband hidden inside a custom-engineered storage cavity directly welded underneath the floorboards of sleeping berths number 4 and 5.
Sheikh Mohammad Ali, the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Cox’s Bazar Sadar Model Thana, confirmed that the primary interrogation of the detained assistant, Ratul, directly led to the discovery of the mechanical concealment matrix. Ratul, a permanent resident of Badershwar village in the Golapganj sub-district of Sylhet, admitted to his systemic involvement in the smuggling syndicate during preliminary profiling. The police immediately confiscated the 92,000 contraband tablets alongside the luxury passenger coach under active judicial evidence preservation protocols.
The fugitive driver, identified as Nazmul, remains the subject of an intense, multi-agency manhunt across the division, with border security nodes alerted to prevent his exit. Investigators believe the seized cache, worth millions in retail market value, was slated for distribution within capital-centric entertainment hubs. A formal criminal case has been registered under the stringent Narcotics Control Act at the local jurisdiction, signaling a renewed, aggressive enforcement posture against transit-based drug networks operating out of the coastal logistics corridor.
 night, seizing a massive cache of 92,000 Yaba tablets from a Dhaka-bound luxury sleeper coach. Law enforcement officials apprehended the bus assistant, identified as 23-year-old Sheikh Ratul, red-handed inside the vehicle. However, capitalizing on the initial operational commotion, the primary driver managed to evade police cordons and fled the crime scene. The calculated intercept represents one of the largest synthetic drug seizures in the coastal district during recent weeks.){kind=link}