<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate drives arrested 57 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the capital in 24 hours till 6 am on Wednesday.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During the drives, 45,743 contraband yaba pills, 559 grams of&nbsp; heroin, 98.675 grams of hemp and 78 bottles of contraband Phensidyle were recovered from the possessions of the arrestees.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As part of the DMP’s regular anti-drug drives, Detective Branch (DB) and teams from local police stations launched drives in various areas in the capital from 6 am Tuesday to 6 am on Wednesday and recovered the drugs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A total of 40 cases were registered with local police stations against the arrestees under the Narcotics Control Act. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>