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A total of 402 people have been arrested in drives by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in the last 24 hours. During the same period, 50 cases were filed over various offences.
A press release from the DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division on Saturday said they were arrested, along with the recovery of various pieces of evidence and drugs, in drives conducted in different police station areas of the capital.
The division-wise arrests include 105 in Mirpur Division, 61 in Motijheel Division, 56 in Tejgaon Division, 45 in Wari Division, 42 in Lalbagh Division, 38 in Uttara Division, 30 in Ramna Division, 23 in Gulshan Division and 2 in the Detective Branch.
During the drives, a foreign-made revolver, five rounds of bullets, seven cleavers, four machetes, one pair of pliers, 8,996 yaba tablets, 35 grams of ganja, five cans of beer, three mobile phones and a battery-run autorickshaw were recovered.
Police said the process of taking the next legal action against the arrestees is under way.
