Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 34 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs during different anti-narcotics drives in the last 24 hours till 6am on Thursday.

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 1,513 pieces of Yaba tablets, 79 grams of heroin, 10.18 grams of cannabis, 20 bottles of Phensedyl, 4 liters of domestic liquor and 11 drug injections were recovered from the arrested persons’ possession, said a DMP press release here.

A total of 36 cases have been filed against them under the Narcotics Control Act in these regards.

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