Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 59 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6:00am today (Tuesday).
The Detective Branch (DB) of the DMP in association with local police stations carried out the drives simultaneously starting at 6am on Monday.
A total of 2,550 pieces of yaba tablets, over 153 grams of heroin, 1,005 bottles of Phensidyl and 3.65-kg of cannabis were recovered from the arrested persons’ possession, said a DMP press release here.
A total of 36 cases were filed with different police stations under the Narcotics Control Act in these regards, reports BSS.