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Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested 528 people in drives in the capital in the last 24 hours. During this time, 53 cases were filed. Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division, gave this information on Thursday (8 October).
He said that of those arrested, Ramna Division arrested 33, Lalbagh Division 67, Wari Division 75, Motijheel Division 53, Tejgaon Division 73, Mirpur Division 102, Gulshan Division 52, Uttara Division 63, the Detective Branch (DB) 9 and CTTC one.
In the drives, 3 kg 590 grams of ganja, 218 yaba pills, 2.6 grams of heroin and two knives were recovered. In addition, a bus, nine mobile phones, 2,600 fake revenue stamps, 3,356 non-judicial stamps and Tk 1,56,032 were recovered.
Equipment for making adulterated medicines and cosmetics was also recovered. This includes 627 syrups, 6,000 capsules, 30 face washes, 310 shampoos, 5 kg of white powder, 150 empty packets and bottles of hygiene wash, 300 unlabelled syrup bottles, a capsule shell filling machine, six capsule filling machine parts and two moulds for applying labels.
DMP said they were arrested, along with the recovery of these items of evidence and narcotics, in drives in various thana areas of the capital. Further legal action against those arrested is under way.
