49 held in Dhaka anti-drugs raids

In irs crackdown on narotics, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested 49 people on charges of selling and consuming banned drugs.

Sources at the DMP headquarters on Saturday said that Detective Branch sleuths and local police conducted drives across the city in the past 24 hours and arrested the 49 accused.

Some 12,151 pieces of Yaba, nearly 12 kgs of cannabis, 73 small packets of heroin and 43 bottles of phencidyl (a habit-forming syrup) were recovered from the possession of the accused, the sources told UNB.

A total of 39 cases have been registered at local police stations against the accused under the Narcotics Control Act.