In a sensational news breaking currently in Bangladesh, one of the country”s well known female cricketer could be behind the bars for her whole life after she was caught with 14,000 methamphetamine pills, police said Sunday.
The cricketer is Nazreen Khan Mukta, who plays first-class cricket in the Dhaka Premier League, was arrested on Sunday while on her way to Dhaka from Cox”s Bazar, according to reports.
Nazreen was returning from Cox”s Bazar where she went to play a match when a police party stopped the team bus at Chittagong.
“During our search, we caught her with 14,000 yaba pills she had kept in packets,” local police chief Pronob Chowdhury told AFP, using the local name for tablets of methamphetamine mixed with caffeine.
The local name used for methamphetamine tablets mixed with caffeine. Nazreen said she is a member of the Bangladesh Ansar and VDP cricket teams.
Nazreen, who lives in Dhaka, confessed that she frequently travelled to Cox”s Bazar to deliver the drugs from an individual Nahid to a man named Ripon in Dhaka.
Chowdhury said the Ansar VDP star would be charged with drug trafficking, an offence that can carry a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Cox’s Bazar borders Myanmar’s conflict-plagued Rakhine state, where authorities say methamphetamine labs produce tens of millions of yaba pills that are shipped to Bangladesh.
Officials this month said drug traffickers had been more active since August when nearly 700,000 Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Myanmar began pouring into Bangladesh.
