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DHAKA: Dhaka: A total of 759 people were arrested in the past 24 hours during routine operations by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). During the same period, 42 cases were filed.
DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media) Md Aktar Hossain disclosed the information on Thursday morning (October 15).
He said the arrests were made during operations conducted in different police station areas across the capital on Wednesday (October 14). Various evidence and narcotics were also seized during the operations. Further legal action against the arrestees is underway.
According to Aktar Hossain, the arrests included 34 people in the Ramna division, 40 in Lalbagh, 92 in Wari, 49 in Motijheel, 196 in Tejgaon, 263 in Mirpur, 42 in Gulshan and 40 in Uttara. The Detective Branch arrested another three people.
During the operations, police recovered one foreign-made pistol, one round of ammunition, one locally made single-shot gun, 22 kilograms and 896 grams of cannabis, one ‘kolki’ (a traditional smoking pipe), 170 yaba tablets, 6,100 tapentadol tablets, 149 cans of beer, one motorcycle, 790 packets of foreign cigarettes, one gold earring weighing 1.5 ana, nine mobile phones, Tk 37,580 in cash and one victim.
