City Desk :
Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested a total of 85 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during last 24 hours till 6am on Tuesday.
The DB in association with local police carried out the drives simultaneously starting at 6am on January 31, according to a DMP press release.
In separate anti-drug raids, police conducted those drives in different areas of the city under various police stations and detained drug peddlers, users and also seized different kinds of banned and illegal drugs from their possessions.
During the anti-drug raids, police seized 153 grams and 110 puria (Small Packet) of heroin and 78.200 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 16,359 pieces of contraband yaba tablets, 15 litre of local liquor and 93 phensidyle from their possession, the release added.
Police filed 53 separate cases against the arrestees in these connections with respective police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.
