DMP arrests 28 for selling, consuming drugs in city

Members of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in several anti-drug raids arrested a total of 28 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Wednesday.

The DB in association with local police carried out the drives simultaneously at different parts of the metropolis from 6am of December 20 to 6am of December 21, 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 212 pieces of contraband yaba tablets, 149 gram puria (small packets) of heroin, 6.670 kilograms of cannabis (ganja),  and three bottles of phensidyl, the release added.

Police filed 25 separate cases against the arrestees in these connections with respective police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.