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44 arrested for selling, consuming drugs in city
DB of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested a total of 44 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am Friday.
The members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested a total of 44 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am Friday.
The DB in association with local police carried out the drives simultaneously at different parts of the metropolis from 6am of December 29 to 6am today, according to a DMP release. In those separate anti-drug raids, police seized huge drugs from their possessions.
During the anti-drug raids, police seized 8,451 pieces of contraband yaba tablets, 31 grams of heroin, 160 bottles of phensidyl syrup and 15.420 kilograms of cannabis (ganja) from their possessions, the release added.
Police filed 31 separate cases against the arrestees in these connections with respective police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.