759 held in 24hrs across Dhaka, files 42 cases

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 759 people in special and regular operations in the capital over the past 24 hours. During this period, 42 cases were filed for various offences. Police recovered firearms, ammunition, a large quantity of drugs and other items in the operations.

Md. Akhtar Hossain, Deputy Commissioner of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division, provided the information on Thursday (October 15). He said the arrests were made on Wednesday (October 14) in raids across various police station areas of the capital.

According to the DMP, the highest number of arrests, 263, was in the Mirpur Division. Another 196 were arrested in the Tejgaon Division, 92 in Wari, 49 in Motijheel, 40 each in Gulshan and Uttara, and 34 in Ramna. In the Lalbagh Division, 40 people were arrested. The Detective Branch arrested three.

Police recovered one foreign-made pistol, one round of ammunition and one locally made single-shot gun. The drugs seized include 22 kg 896 grams of cannabis, 170 yaba tablets, 6,100 tapentadol tablets and one kolki (a smoking pipe). In addition, 149 cans of beer were seized.

Police also recovered one motorcycle, 790 packets of foreign cigarettes, a gold earring weighing one and a half ana, nine mobile phones and 37,580 taka in cash. One victim was also rescued in the same operations.

The DMP said legal action is being taken against those arrested for the respective offences. The activities were carried out as part of the police’s regular operations to control crime and maintain law and order in the capital.