Police have arrested six persons and seized contraband foreign liquor and 4,000 pieces of yaba pills in separate drives conducted in Patiya and Lohagara upazilas in Chittagong.
The arrestees are Mamun, 25, Jakir Hossain, 24, Alamgir, 42, Abu Bakar, 40, Liza, 35 and Ibrahim, 28.
Of the arrestees, Mamun and Jakir were arrested with 480 cans of beer and eight bottles of foreign liquor from Patiya upazila on Monday morning.
Patiya OC Md Refayetullah said: “Acting on a tip-off, a police-team searched a Cox’s Bazar-bound private car and held the duo with the liquor worth Tk2 lakh from in front of Al Madina Hotel in the morning.”
Police also detained four others, including a woman with 4,000 pieces of yaba pills, after searching a Dhaka-bound microbus at the Amirabad area late Sunday night.
Lohagara OC Mohammad Shahjahan said: “A total of 4,000 yaba pills were recovered from their possession.”
Two cases have been filed in connection with the incidents.