Khamin spends a night at the Amin Bazar area, one of the largest hubs of criminal activity in the country
After waiting with Abul (not his real name) for around half an hour at the street-side tea stall near the lake, at Amin Bazar on the night of April 13, a Bedford truck loaded with green coconuts stopped beside the lake a few yards away from us around 10:30pm.
Abul whispers to me that the truck has arrived from Jessore with the coconuts and then points toward the way the truck communicates by switching its headlights on and off twice - that its ‘goods’ are ready to be unloaded.
Three men walk toward the truck from another stall while two on rickshaw vans gradually make their way toward the truck also from another direction. ‘Just observe the situation and act like a pedestrian having tea at this stall,’ advises Abul, who is also a part of this Chalan and currently works for the Gangchil Bahini unwillingly.
Within 10 to 15 minutes, the two vans are loaded with the green coconuts and moves away from the truck which reinitiates its journey toward Karwan Bazar with the remaining coconuts. ‘The coconuts on the two vans are actually carrying heroin, worth at least 50 lakh takas smuggled in through the Indian border,’ says my companion.
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