31 held in Uttara anti-narcotics drive
At least 31 people have been detained in an anti-narcotics drive in Dhaka’s Uttara area.
Police conducted the drive in Uttara’s Baunia Badh area between 10:30am and 2:00pm and the 31 people were held including drug peddlers and drug users, said Shafiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Turag Police Station.
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The law enforcers also seized over five kilogrammes of marijuana and 5,100 contraband yaba pills, the police official said.
Meanwhile, officials of the Department of Narcotics Control were conducting a drive in Bhatara area of Badda till this afternoon, Khurshid Alam, assistant director of the DNC, told The Daily Star.
On May 4, Rab launched its own anti-narcotics operations while the police headquarters on May 16 instructed all police units across the country to conduct a special drive.
The anti-narcotics crackdown has hit the tally of “war on drugs” to 108 in just a fortnight of raids conducted by law enforcers.
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