Crackdown on drug peddlers to continue: Asaduzzaman Khan

Published : 22 May 2018, 14:18

Sahos Desk

Amid the killings of ‘drug dealers’ in growing ‘gunfights’, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday said the crackdown on the drug dealers will continue.

“No drug peddlers will be spared, no matter how powerful they are socially or politically. Law enforcement agencies will continue the drive against them to bring them to justice,” he said while talking to UNB at the Secretariat.

A total of 29 people, mostly suspected drug dealers, were killed in reported gunfights with law enforcers in the last 10 days till Monday.

The home minister said prime minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed his ministry to take a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy against the drug trade and stop it at any cost.

As per the directives, an anti-narcotic drive has been launched making a division-wise list of drug dealers based on intelligence information, he said.

Source: unb/Prothom Alo

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