DHAKA, Oct 11, 2021 (BSS) - Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka
Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate anti-drug operations arrested 63 people
on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city.

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

     As part of the anti-drug campaign, the police conducted raids in
different areas under various police stations and detained 63 drug abusers
and recovered drugs from their possession from 6 am on October 10, 2021 to 6
am today, it said.

     Police seized 82 grams of heroin, 22.295 kilograms of cannabis (ganja)
and 12,086 pieces of yaba, according to the statement.

     Police filed 37 cases against the arrestees in these connections with
police stations concerned under the Narcotics Control Act.