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Rapid Action Battalion Wednesday midnight picked up Pushpita Noor alias Chhobi Noor, sister of fugitive Yaaba Queen and ramp model Nikita, and her so called husband MNH Bulu, a director of a private TV channel, from their Gulshan residence.

RAB-3 Wing Commander Sultan Ahmed Nurani said they detained the couple in connection with their suspected links with the underworld of dangerous drug yaaba.

He said they conducted the raid from 11:30pm on Wednesday to 4:am Thursday at their residence at Road-24 in Gulshan. But nothing was recovered from the house.

Earlier on Monday night, RAB raided the Dhanmondi residence of Mahbubur Rahman Joynal, Managing Director of hotel Purbani International, to arrest Nikita, allegedly the main yaaba dealer.

Joinal and Nikita both, however, sneaked out of the house after the arrival of the crime-busters. But, a treasure-trove was found at Joinal's house.

RAB said they had raided Nikita's residence at Karnafuli Garden City at Shantinagar and Joinal's house in Dhanmondi following the confession of Amin Huda, who was arrested with huge yaaba tablets worth Tk 15 crore on October 24.

A number of model girls, actors and actresses are also in the black list of the RAB in this connection, sources said.

Meanwhile, at the end of the four-day remand, Amin Huda and his cohort Ahsanul Huq were put on the second round of remand for three days.

As they disclosed important information in connection with yaaba deals, investigation officer produced them before the court yesterday seeking seven-day remand and the court granted for three days.

Sources said that RAB personnel would interrogate Pushpita, Bulu and Amin Huda face to face to unearth the underworld network of the smugglers involved in smuggling yaaba and jewels.

Quoting Amin Huda, a RAB official said Nikita and Pushpita are the trump cards Huda for running the roaring trade in the sex-stimulating tablets.

During the press briefing, RAB-3 Wing Commander Nurani said, "Such a huge quantity of jewels recovered from Joinal's house proves that he is linked to smuggling and there is an international ring."

About the exact figure of the recovered valuables, RAB officials said, "We asked three experts of Amin Jewelers, country's only diamond-supplying jewelry house, to measure the figure. But they couldn't yet. Some of the recovered diamonds the experts couldn't see in their life."

RAB said they had already interrogated Pushpita and her husband. "We'll continue our drive to hold Mahbubur Rahman, who is one of the main Yaaba dealers in the country. And hopefully we would manage to arrest him at the soonest possible time."

On the other hand, no case was filed and none was made arrest although three days have past after the recovery of the treasure-trove, foreign currencies and share certificates worth Tk 28 crore from the residence of Joinal.