DMP arrests 35 ‘for consuming, selling drugs’

As part of different anti-drug drives in the capital, members of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 35 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during the last 24 hours till 6am on Tuesday, reports BSS.

According to a release issued by the DMP, police conducted those operations against the drug sellers and consumers in different areas under various police stations of the metropolis. They also detained a total of 35 drug traffickers and recovered huge drugs from their possession from 6am of January 15 to 6 am on Tuesday.

During the anti-drug raids, police seized 1,210 pieces of contraband yaba tablets, 113 grams of heroin, 6.100 kilograms of cannabis (ganja), 1000 pieces of tapentadol tablets and six bottles of Phensedyl syrup from their possession, the release added.

Police filed 33 cases against the arrestees in those connections with respective police stations under the Narcotics Control Act.