The evildoers involved in the drug smuggling and trading have become upbeat as the district has recently turned into a risk-less passage for their business.
It was learnt that drug hauls are being brought to the district from the Indo-Bangla frontier Comilla, Cox’s Bazar, Brahmanbaria and Bandarban districts and then the drug traders supply those to Shariatpur, Noakhali, Lakshmipur, greater Barisal as well as the capital.
Basically, the drug traders choose naval, road and rail routes to send their hauls elsewhere in the country, in which they use women and children to shun the eyes of the law enforcers.
Locals alleged that the traders have been running their business in connivance with some corrupt officials of law enforcing agencies and local influential political leaders, who have become a great barrier in curbing the trading.
They also stated that in line with being used as a safe route, different sorts of drugs have flooded all over the district although once upon a time it was only limited in the district town.
Puranbazar of the district town is vastly known for wholesale trading of drugs, to influence which many incidents of fierce clash erupted earlier as well while Baburhat, Wireless areas are being used as safe transit point.
Police sources said the drug traders have currently prefer naval route due to not having proper checking there.
Although several years ago the district administration declared a war against the drug trading, there were no mentionable achievement till now while the drug barons change their ways continuously so that the law enforcers easily can not track down them.
According to the district intelligence department, law enforcers arrested 50 drug traders along with around Tk28 lakh drugs till June from January this year and some 39 cases were launched in the incidents.
The lion part of the seized drug included hemp, phensidyl and yaba.
Md Anjum Ferdouse, OC of District Detective Branch of police, told the Dhaka Tribune that despite having various types of limitation, they were conducting drives repeatedly to arrest the drug smugglers and traders.
Chandpur SP Aamir Zafar said: “Drug smugglers bring their hauls from bordering districts - Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban, Comilla and Brahmanbaria – in my district from where the drug traders supply those elsewhere in the country by different channels.”
The law enforcers have been kept alerted dully on all possible drug routes while they were showing zero tolerance to the dangerous drug trading, the SP continued.
In this regard, Chandpur Government Railway Police (GRP) OC Suvas Kanti Das said he was not aware of drug smuggling through the rail route, but he assured of looking into the matter seriously in the future.
