A Bangladeshi court on Monday sent a female cricketer to two days police custody after she was arrested with 14,000 pills of popular drug yaba, as methamphetamine is widely known in Asia, a senior police officer said. Consumption of yaba is booming in Bangladesh, with seizures alone jumping more than 2,500 percent to 29.4 million pills in 2016 compared with 2011. READ | Top woman cricketer arrested for drug trafficking in BangladeshFollowing a tip-off, police arrested Najrin Khan Mukta, 23, in the south-eastern city of Chittagong with the yaba tablets in her backpack as she was leaving for the capital Dhaka on Sunday. Cox’s Bazar is a coastal district neighbouring Myanmar, factories in the northeastern part of which, according to analysts, are pushing ya ba towards Bangladesh. Narcotics officials say a ya ba pill can be bought for around 60 taka ($0.714) in Cox’s Bazar but retails for around 300 taka in Dhaka.

Source: Hindustan Times April 23, 2018 12:22 UTC