The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in different operations in the last 24 hours till 6 am Thursday (September 28) arrested 39 persons for their alleged involvement in selling and consuming drugs.

Being informed, the DMP’s police and detective units conducted the anti-drug campaign in the city’s various areas, seizing drugs and arresting drug sellers and abusers, according to a DMP statement. 

They seized 10,931 pieces of Yaba tablets, 70 bottles of phensedyl , 71.1kg of hemp, 95gm of heroin, 6 litre of foreign wine and 14 litre of local wine from their possessions, according to the statement. 

According to the statement, 30 cases were filed against the detained persons under the Narcotics Control Act.

BDST: 1245 HRS, SEP 28, 2023
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