BSS :
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in anti-drug drives arrested 47 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 27, a DMP statement said on Tuesday.
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 219 grams and 100 puria (small packet) of heroin, 1.01 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 6,483 pieces of yaba tablets and one bottle of foreign made liquor from them, it said.
