All Bodi’s men surrender

Close accomplices of former Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi, allegedly involved in yaba trade, have surrendered to police.  
However, most of the drug peddlers who were against Bodi or had not been with him in this trade were killed in 'crossfire' with law members of law enforcing agencies.
At least 430 alleged drug peddlers have been killed and about 1.5 lakh arrested and 1 lakh cases filed since law enforcers started a nationwide anti-drug crackdown in May last year.
Of them, around 30 drug peddlers were killed in Cox's Bazar.
A top police official in Cox's Bazar told The Daily Observer that at least 63 yaba godfathers, dealers had surrendered to police in Cox's Bazar.
Of them, 24 are on the government list of 73 top drug dealers in the country.
Bodi's three brothers who topped multiple government lists of yaba traders in the country also surrendered to police. They are Abdul Amin, Md Shafiq and Faisal Rahman.
A source said they had recently returned home from Dubai to surrender.
One of Bodi's nephews, Shahedur Rahman Nipu, has also taken shelter at a 'safe home'.
The agencies also listed several of his relatives and accomplices, including his brothers Abdul Shukkur and Mujibur Rahman, stepbrothers     Abdul Amin and Faisal, in-law Shahed Kamal and cousin Kamrul Hasan Russell.
Police said dozens more suspected yaba dealers would surrender in the middle of next month.
The drug business can hardly thrive without being aided and abetted by influential and powerful persons.
Certain political elements are reportedly involved in this trade and so are members of the law enforcement agencies.
So if anything tangible is to be done against the drug trade, this criminal nexus is to be broken. It is not an easy task, but it must be done, said a source in a government agency.
According to data prepared by police around 1.5 lakh drug addicts and drug traders have been arrested from across the country. A total of 1 lakh cases have been filed against them.
The Department of Narcotics Control (DNC) source told the daily Observer that they were showing zero-tolerance for drug traders and addicts.
The Narcotics Control Act was formulated in 1990 and it was being updated after 28 years in line with UN conventions on drug trafficking and narcotics control, of which Bangladesh is a signatory.