Yaba inside abdomen

Doctors remove pouch with 1,500 tablets
Doctors of a private clinic in the port city removed a pouch of Yaba tablets from the abdomen of a middle-aged male patient last Tuesday.
Bulu Miah, the 44-year-old patient, wanted to make some quick money, Tk 2,000. In exchange, all he had to do was to transport around 1,500 Yaba tablets from Teknaf to Chittagong devising a way to dodge the law enforcers and BDR check posts.
Bulu figured that the best way to transport the contraband drug was to put it inside up the rectum. So he packed the tablets in a plastic pouch, sealed it with tape and endured the pain of the procedure. The idea was to get the pouch out and deliver it once he had reached the destination.
Earlier this week, he tried the method, perhaps a technique popular with smugglers, but something went wrong. Bulu failed to eject the pack.
All his efforts to get it out failed and he started to suffer abdominal pain. This forced him to seek medical attention. He went to Centre for Specialised Care and Research (CSCR) clinic near Probartak intersection of the city Tuesday.
Surgeon Prof Sanaullah Shelly of CSCR said Bulu came to the clinic with severe abdominal pain, which prompted the doctors to run a sigmoidoscopy test on him.
The doctors decided to operate on him around 9:00pm Wednesday as the test report showed something unusual inside Bulu’s abdomen. They found the wrapped pouch of Yaba tablets, said Prof Sanaullah, adding that police were called in straight away.
Prof Sanaullah also mentioned that Bulu was not fluent in Bangla.
Bulu was arrested in a Yaba smuggling case filed with Panchlaish Police Station Wednesday night. To the police, Bulu introduced himself as a son of Mokbul Ahmed of Kalarmarchara under Chokoria upazila in Cox’s Bazar.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Nabajyoti Khisa of Panchlaish Police Station, however, suspects Bulu to be a Rohingya from Myanmar.
Sub-Inspector Mabud, investigation officer (IO) of the case, said Bulu wrote Chokoria as his address in the clinic register but to police he said he was from Ramu in Cox’s Bazar.
Police also detained office assistant of the clinic Saiful Islam, who helped Bulu consult a doctor at the clinic, for interrogation.
The law enforcers were able to talk to Bulu around 4:00pm yesterday when his condition improved.
Bulu claimed that one Nurul Haque gave him the tablets and asked him to carry those to Chittagong for Tk 2,000. – The Daily Star