BSS :
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in anti-drug drives arrested 45 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city in the last 24 hours till 6am yesterday.
The DB of DMP in association with local police stations carried out the drives simultaneously starting at 6am on December 25, a DMP statement said on Sunday.
In separate anti-drug camping, police arrested drug peddlers and abusers and seized banned and illegal drugs from city’s different parts.
During the anti-drug campaign, police seized 173 grams and 279 puria (small packet) of heroin, 23.944 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 776 pieces of yaba tablets and 41 bottles of phensidyle from them, it said.
Police filed 34 cases against the arrestees under the Narcotics Control Act.
