66 Held for Selling, Consuming Drugs in City

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 66 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city.

According to a DMP statement issued today, in separate anti-drug operations of the DMP's police arrested drug paddlers and abusers and seized banned and illegal drugs from the city's various areas.

The police raided different areas under various police stations and detained 66 drug abusers and recovered drugs from their possession from 6 am on September 18, 2021 to 6 am today, it said.

Police seized 302 grams and eight puria (small packet) of heroin, 70 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 280 bottles of phensidyle, 1,236 pieces of yaba and 266 can beer from them, according to the statement.

Police filed 46 cases against the arrestees in this connection with respective police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.