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54 held for selling, consuming drugs in city
DHAKA, Nov 19, 2020 (BSS) – Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 54 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6am today.
The Detective Branch (DB) of the DMP in association with local police stations carried out the simultaneous drives starting at 6am on Wednesday.
A total of 2,266 pieces of yaba tablets, more than 56.1 grams of heroin, 6.29 kgs of cannabis were recovered from the arrested persons’ possession, said a DMP press release here.
A total of 43 cases were filed with different police stations under the Narcotics Control Act in these regards.
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