Dhaka, April 16 -- Three people, including a policeman, were detained with 7, 500 pieces of contraband Yaba pills at Ramu in Cox's Bazar district on Tuesday night.

The detainees are Zahidul Islam, 33, a wireless operator at Ramu police station, his cohorts Avijit Chowdhury, 35, son of Babul Chowdhury of Chattogram's Patiya and Pushan Chowdhury, 37, son of Nantu Chowdhury of the district's Raozan.

Sirajul Mostafa, assistant director of the Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) in Cox's Bazar, said they conducted a drive in a house rented by the accused cop at Mondalpara in Ramu upazila from 11pm to 1am on Tuesday after being tipped-off that Zahidul and others had been running drug peddling for a long time.

During the drive, a total of 7...