Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 44 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the ongoing anti-narcotics drives in the capital in the last 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday.
The Detective Branch (DB) of the DMP in association with the members of local police stations carried out the drives starting at 6am on Tuesday. During the drives, the law enforcers recovered 1,793 pieces of yaba tables, 81 grams heroin, 610.25 grams hemp and 205 bottles of Phensedyl from their possession, a police official said.
A total of 34 cases were filed with different police stations under the narcotics Control Act over the arrest and drug recovery.
