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A total of 546 people have been arrested in the capital in the last 24 hours in regular drives of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). During this time, 61 cases were filed.
Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of police of the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division, gave this information on Thursday (17 September).
He said that among the arrestees, 36 are in Ramna Division, 30 in Lalbagh Division, 86 in Wari Division, 65 in Motijheel Division, 74 in Tejgaon Division, 152 in Mirpur Division, 49 in Gulshan Division, 35 in Uttara Division and 19 in the Detective Branch (DB).
In the drives, one foreign pistol, one magazine, 9 rounds of bullets, 1 kg 960 grams of ganja, 13,870 yaba pills, 13.8 grams of heroin and 210 bottles of Eskuf (Phensedyl) were recovered.
Besides, one toy pistol with a magazine, one walkie-talkie, one pair of handcuffs, two DB jackets, one autorickshaw, three motorcycles, 14 mobile phones, two bullet shells, one foil paper and Tk 13,300 were recovered. Three victims were also rescued in the drives.
The DMP said they were arrested, along with the recovery of these pieces of evidence and drugs, in drives in different thana areas of the capital. The DMP official said the process of taking further legal action against the arrestees is under way.
