DHAKA, Oct 13, 2021 (BSS) - Members of Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka 
Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate anti-drug drives arrested 39 people on 
charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city. 

    According to a DMP statement issued here today, DMP's police arrested 39 
drug paddlers and abusers and seized banned and illegal drugs from the city's 
different areas. 

    As part of the anti-drug campaign, the police conducted raids in 
different areas under different police stations and detained 39 drug abusers 
and peddlers and recovered drugs from their possession from 6 am on October 
12, 2021 to 6 am today, it said.

    Police also seized 150 grams and 110 puria (Small Packet) of heroin, 
1.895 kilograms of cannabis (ganja) and 2,541 pieces of yaba tablets, 
according to the statement. 

    Police filed 32 cases against the arrestees in these connections with 
police stations concerned under the Narcotics Control Act.