BSS :
Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 57 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city.
According to a DMP statement issued on Wednesday, DMP police arrested drug peddlers, abusers and seized banned and illegal drugs from the city’s various areas.
As part of the anti-drug campaign, the police raided different areas under various police stations and detained 57 drug abusers and recovered drugs from their possession from 6 am on September 28, 2021 to 6 am today, it said.
Police seized 170 grams of heroin, 17.946 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 76 bottle of phensidyle and 8,639 pieces of yaba from them, according to the statement.
