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A total of 414 people have been arrested in the last 24 hours in the regular anti-narcotics and anti-crime drives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in the capital. During this time, 59 cases were filed with various police stations.
According to DMP sources, 28 people were arrested in Ramna division, 35 in Lalbagh division, 66 in Wari division, 54 in Motijheel division, 61 in Tejgaon division, 81 in Mirpur division, 25 in Gulshan division, 48 in Uttara division and 16 by the Detective Branch in the drives.
During the drives, a foreign pistol, a magazine, five rounds of bullets, a foreign revolver and four rounds of revolver bullets were recovered. Besides, 21,672 yaba pills, 2 kilograms 735 grams of ganja, 20 grams of heroin, 30 sachets of heroin, 324 mobile phones, nine mobile tablets, six trunks and Tk 9,570 in cash were recovered. A victim was also rescued in the same drives.
DMP said these pieces of evidence and narcotics were recovered and those concerned were arrested by conducting separate drives in various police station areas of the capital.
DMP said the process of taking further legal action, including filing cases with the police stations concerned against the arrested persons, is under way.
