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As many as 546 people have been arrested in the capital in the last 24 hours in drives by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). During the same period, 62 cases were filed.
Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner (DC) of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division, confirmed the information on Thursday.
He said that, among those arrested, Ramna Division arrested 37 people, Lalbagh Division 45, Wari Division 77, Motijheel Division 73, Tejgaon Division 109, Mirpur Division 125, Gulshan Division 42, Uttara Division 34, the Detective Branch 3 and the CTTC Division 1.
Fragments of exploded cocktails, 4 kg 120 grams of ganja, 2,196 yaba pills, 51 grams of heroin, 30 bottles of foreign liquor, 5 mobile phones and 1 private car were recovered in the drives. They were arrested with various pieces of evidence and drugs in drives conducted in different thana areas of the capital. The process of taking further legal action against those arrested is under way, the police official said.
