BSS :
In separate anti-drug operations, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 52 persons on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city during the last 24 hours.
According to a DMP statement, police and members of detective branch (DB) units conducted anti-drug raids in different areas in the capital city from Thursday 6 am to Friday 6 am, seizing drugs and arrested drug sellers and abusers.
During the raids, police seized 8,591 yaba tablets, 138 grams of heroin in 155 purias (small packets) and 4.135 kilograms of cannabis from them, the statement added.
Police filed 36 cases against the arrestees in these connections with police stations concerned under the Narcotics Control Act.
