[Bangla Daily Star] A senior assistant judge was placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
with 342 bottles of Phensedyl and a loaded pistol in the capital's New Market area last night.
The arrestee, Javed Imam, 30,
| A mere two-namer, though he is a judge.. |
. is posted at Bhola district court.
He came to Dhaka from Jessore
| Which is on the map, as can be seen here, no jeweler's loupe required. |
late in the evening. He was driving a microbus
| ...which will no doubt disappear as if it had never been... |
carrying the bottles of contraband cough syrup in a sack. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested him in front of Eden College around 7:20pm, said Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner (DC-Ramna) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
It's the fact that he's a judge that saved him from an 'encounter'...
| ...not to mention the courtesy of an arrest while the sun was still above the horizon. |
Talking to news hounds at the New Market Police Station, Javed said he joined Bhola court on November 8 from Jessore. He has been on leave for a month.
He claimed his cousin Sumon, who worked for Brac in its Kushtia office, had given him the Phensedyl consignment for one Lincoln
| ...an odd name for Bangladesh, to be sure. Not a hint of -abd or -ullah in it anywhere... |
in Dhaka. He agreed to do it all for Tk 1.20 lakh that he needed badly.
Javed further claimed the pistol is licensed and his father Khaled Imam, a lawyer in Jhenidah, owns the microbus.
The DMP DC said they suspect Lincoln is either an informant for the law enforcers or a drug peddler.
| An interesting combination of possibilities. |
Contacted around 2:30am today, duty officer at the New Market Police Station said a case had been filed in this connection.
| The police and the news hounds neither slumber nor sleep. |
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