Twelve people were arrested in anti-narcotics drives in Netrokona and Jashore on Saturday.
In Netrakona, police arrested 11 people from Sadar upazila, said Sadar Model Police Station's in-charge Borhan Uddin Khan.
Fifty litres of local liquor, three grams of heroin and 200 grams of cannabis were seized from them, he said. Eleven cases were filed against the detainees at the Sadar Police Station.
In Jashore, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troopers recovered 1,014 bottles of contraband cough syrup phensedyl in separate drives. Phensedyl is popular among addicts who use it as a substitute of expensive drugs and alcohol.
Jashore Battalion (49 BGB) Commander Lieutenant Colonel Ariful Hoque said 405 bottles of phensedyl syrup were found abandoned during one of the drives. In separate busts, 609 more phensedyl bottles were seized on Friday, reports UNB.
A man was also arrested from Shikri field. He was named as Md Ramjan Ali, 26, son of Md Abdul Aziz of Durgapur in Sharsha upazila.
