543 arrested in 24hrs across Dhaka

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 543 people and filed 38 cases during raids across the capital over the past 24 hours.

The arrests were made Monday in operations across various police station areas, during which officers seized drugs, weapons and other evidence and rescued one victim, according to a police press release issued today.

The Mirpur division recorded the highest number of arrests with 150, followed by Wari with 94, Tejgaon with 74, Gulshan with 62, Motijheel with 48, Lalbagh with 42, Uttara with 37 and Ramna with 33. The Detective Branch (DB) arrested three people.

Police also seized 1,121 yaba pills, 28 grams of heroin, one unexploded crude bomb, fragments of an exploded crude bomb, a switchgear knife, pliers, a bolt cutter, an auto-rickshaw, 15 mobile phones and 13 SIM cards.

Further legal action against the arrested individuals was underway.