According to a report from the Daily Star, a cricketer named Naznin Khan Mukta has been caught by the police for having possession of 14000 yaba tablets (also known as the mad drug) on April 22, 2018.

She was caught from Shah Amanat Bridge Gol Chattar in Chittagong and is apparently a player that played for Ansar in Dhaka Premier League (Women’s Cricket League). She is a 23-year-old woman that comes from Mymensingh and was caught red-handed when police checked a bus that was going to Dhaka from Cox’s Bazar.

“She is a cricketer who plays for Ansar team in the Dhaka Premier League (Women's Cricket League) and is also a drop-out of Jagannath University's (JnU) sociology department,” Pranab Chowdhury, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bakalia Police Station said.

According to the report, the police got inside information about her carrying drugs and detained her at 5 am on April 22, 2018. When the police searched her luggage, they found 14000 yaba tablets and arrested her immediately.

It was later revealed by the OC that someone named Mohammad Nahid supplied her with the drugs and she worked as a middle-woman and transferred it to a person named Ripon.

Meanwhile, a representative of Ansar revealed that while she used to play for them, she is no longer a part of the team due to disciplinary problems and irregularity in attending training.

“Two or three years ago someone by that name played a match for our team,” Ansar and VDP Circle Adjutant (Sports Officer) Md Raihan Uddin Fakir was quoted as saying by HT.

“We had members receiving a subsidy at the time. But she was dismissed due to disciplinary reasons and because she attended practice irregularly. She has not been with us for some time. Ansar will not take responsibility for her personal actions.”