Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested 40 people on charges of selling and consuming drugs in the city in the last 24 hours till 6am yesterday.

The drives were simultaneously carried out starting at 6:00am on December 2, a police statement said yesterday.

In separate anti-drug operations, police arrested drug peddlers and abusers and seized banned and illegal drugs from the capital's different areas.

Thirty-two cases were filed in these connections with police stations concerned under the Narcotics Control Act.