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Model Arrests Drug racket: Model Piyasa, Mou arrested following DMP raids at residences; Large quantities of Yaba, liquor recovered
Dhaka, August 2: Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch (DB) has arrested models Faria Mahbub Piyasa and Maryam Akhter Mou with a large quantity of foreign liquor, Yaba and other banned substances. Police first raided Piyasa's house in the capital's Baridhara around 10pm on Sunday (August 1). She was later arrested at around 12.45 am and taken to the DB office for questioning.
Meanwhile, on the information given by Piyasa, the detective police conducted a raid at Mou's residence on Babar Road in Mohammadpur. Huge quantities of alcohol were recovered from her home. Later, Mou was arrested around 1 am. She was also taken to the DB office for questioning.
According to the police, Piyasa and Mou are a gang. They used to invite rich people in the guise of a party and take pictures of sensitive nature after intoxicating them with alcohol and Yaba. Later, they would show the picture and blackmail the guests for a large sum of money.
Meanwhile, after arresting the two models, Harun-ur-Rashid, Joint Commissioner of the Detective (North) Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, briefed reporters in Mohammadpur.
"They are both members of an organized circle. We have received many blackmail allegations against them. Their homes were raided to investigate the incidents. Foreign liquor, yaba and substances were found in their houses. There was also a liquor bar in Mou's house," Rashid said.
"Drugs were found in their house. As a result, separate cases will be filed against them in Mohammadpur and Gulshan police stations under the Narcotics Control Act. There will also be separate cases against them for blackmailing. An application will be made to the court to remand them in these cases," he said.
Incidentally, in May 2017, two university students were raped at the Raintree Hotel in Banani. Faria Mahabub Piyasa was named in the statement of case filed in that incident. Piyasa first assisted the victims in filing the lawsuit. But the victim had filed a GD against her for threatening her to withdraw the case.
