Crackdown on ‘casinos’

Crackdown on ‘casinos’

Rab arrested Jubo League Dhaka South Organising Secretary Khalid Mahmud Bhuiyan at his Gulshan home yesterday evening for running a “casino” at a football club in Fakirerpool.

Rab raided at least five clubs in the city yesterday and detained and sentenced 182 people in connection with running “casinos”, gambling, and drug abuse, and sealed off at least two clubs.

Khalid’s arrest came after a Rab mobile court detained and sentenced 142 people raiding the “casino” in Fakirerpool Youngmen’s Club and seized some apparently blackjack tables, slot machines, Tk 24.29 lakh in cash, yaba pills, and some bottles of liquor around 4:30pm.

Khalid is the president of the club and he was detained around 7:30pm, Sarwar-Bin-Kashem, director (legal and media) of Rab, told All Bangla Newspaper.

Rab also seized three firearms, bullets, and yaba pills in his possession.