Police arrest 28 for selling, consuming drugs in city

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DHAKA, Aug 17, 2020 (BSS) – Detective police have arrested 28 persons on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives here in the last 24 hours till 6am today.

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in association with local police stations carried out the simultaneous drives starting at 6am on Sunday, a DMP media release said today.

Police recovered 3,468 pieces of Yaba tablets, 20 grams of heroin and 21.160 kgs of cannabis from the arrestees’ possession.

A total of 20 cases have been filed against the arrested persons under narcotics control act.