The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested three female drug peddlers with 33 kilograms of cannabis in their possession in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur late on Friday.
The three are Masuda alias Maksuda Begum, 35, Lovely Begum, 27, and Laboni Akhter, 19.
They had been arrested at the market adjacent to Sreepur Government Pilot High School, said RAB-1 Assistant Director (Media) Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Noman Ahmed.
The seized drugs and the arrested were turned over to the police station concerned on Saturday morning.
RAB had received information that some drug peddlers had entered Sreepur from Kapasia on a CNG-run autorickshaw along with a large consignment of cannabis, said the ASP.
During interrogation the three admitted to buying different types of drugs from various parts of the country and selling them in Gazipur, according to RAB.