A drug peddler was arrested in a raid in the capital's Sabujbagh area on Tuesday, along with 100 Yaba tablets. Police said Md Babul, also known as Swarnakar Babu, 42, was arrested in the Kazi Wahab Colony area under the Sabujbagh Police Station. Acting on a tip-off about a person selling Yaba in the area, police conducted an operation and arrested Babul. A case has been filed against him under the Narcotics Control Act at the Sabujbagh Police Station. During initial interrogation, Babul revealed that he had been sourcing Yaba from various parts of the country for resale in different areas of the capital, including Sabujbagh. Police also noted that Babul has six previous drug-related cases filed against him at Sabujbagh, Kadamtali, Ramna Model, and Shahjahanpur police stations.  

Police have arrested three suspects in the case filed over a housewife's murder in the city's Sabujbagh last Saturday.  Air-conditioner repairman Bappy, 31, and his two accomplices Sumon Hossain Hridoy, 22, and Rubel, 42, were arrested from Nolchhiti of Jhalokathi district and Dhaka city.  Tania Akter, wife of Moinul Islam, was hacked to death on the evening of March 26 at her home in Begunbari under Sabujbagh Police station. She was residing in a rented flat on the first floor of a building at Begunbari Master Goli with her 3-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son. Her husband Moinul Hossain, a medical technologist, divided his time between Dhaka and Cumilla for work, and was not in town during the incident.  Briefing reporters at Paltan Police Station, Deputy Commissioner (Motijheel Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Abdul Ahad on Tuesday evening said Tania was hacked to death as she tried to prevent the arrestees from robbing the flat, after they got in on the pretense of fixing the air conditioner. READ: 2 women found dead in Newmarket, Sabujbagh Ahad said air-conditioner repairman Bappy, who was previously known to the family,  went to the flat along with Hridoy and Rubel on March 26 afternoon to repair A/C. At one stage they opened the cupboard (almari) in the room and started shuffling through things. When Tania saw this, she tried to stop them.   At one stage,  Rubel immediately grabbed Tania and Bappi pulled out a Chapati from his bag, hitting her three times on the head and back to confirm her death. At that time, when the children started crying, the detainees tied the children's faces and body parts with scotch tape. The detainees then took away the gold ornaments in the cupboard of the house, the earrings in the victim's ear, a gold chain around the neck of one of the children, money and the victim's mobile set, the DC (Motijheel division) said.  Victims' husband Moinul Islam filed a case at Sabujbagh police station. Location of AC maker Bappi was identified with the help of modern information technology.  Based on secret information, a special police team arrested Bappy from Nolchhiti of Jhalokathis district on Monday. Based on his statement, the police arrested Hridoy and Rubel from the city’s Rampura in the city today (Tuesday), the DC said.  Two gold chains and a pair of earrings were recovered from their possession, he added. 

A housemaid and an anonymous woman's dead bodies were recovered on Saturday from city's Newmarket and Sabujbagh police station areas. One of the deceased was identified as Laily Aktar, 15, from New Market and another was an anonymous woman of 35 in Sabujbagh. Both the bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy, said police. Also read: Husband arrested after woman found dead in launch Sub-Inspector of New Market police station Atikul Bishwash Mukul said house owner Farzana Islam, a teacher of Bir Shreshtha Noor Mohammad Public School and College, has been arrested in the case of house maid Laily’s death. According to police, Laily’s dead body was recovered on Saturday afternoon from  Farzana Islam’s apartment in teacher’s residential building located inside BGB (Border Guard Bangladesh) Headquarters. Laily had been working in that house since six months. Her body had several injury marks. The actual cause of the death could be identified after the autopsy, said SI Atikul. Also read: Young woman found dead in Patuakhali hotel Laily’s family claims she was employed in Farzana’s house as a domestic help eight months ago at thousand Taka per month salary. They haven’t seen her after that until they found the dead body yesterday in the hospital morgue. Layla’s mother said her daughter’s death wasn’t natural and demanded police to investigate the actual cause of death  Meanwhile Sabujbagh police station’s Sub-Inspector Priyotosh Chandra Dutta said an anonymous female’s throat-slit dead body was recovered on Saturday night from the third floor of a building in Shahibag bank colony area. Also read: Woman found dead in Cumilla She was wearing a blue torn dress and the body was wrapped in a rag, said police. If the body has been raped before murder, can be assured after the autopsy, SI Priyotosh said.