Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 39 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6am on Monday.
The Detective Branch (DB) of the DMP in association with local police stations carried out the simultaneous drives starting at 6am on Sunday.
A total of 36,069 pieces of Yaba tablets, 187 grams of heroin, 25.9 kgs of cannabis and 30bottles of Phensedyl were recovered from the arrested persons’ possession, said a DMP press release here.
A total of 30 cases have been filed against them under the Narcotics Control Act in these regards.
