Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 544 people during its regular drives across the capital in the past 24 hours. A total of 62 cases were filed during the same period.
Deputy Commissioner of DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division Akter Hossain disclosed the information on Friday (November 6).
Of the arrestees, 41 were arrested from Ramna, 42 from Lalbagh, 95 from Wari, 44 from Motijheel, 59 from Tejgaon, 144 from Mirpur, 55 from Gulshan, 49 from Uttara and 13 by SRU-2 and Detective Branch (DB) teams.
During the drives, police seized 540 grams of cannabis, 6,258 yaba pills, 4.2 grams of heroin in four packets, 37 pethidine injections, two knives and two cutters.
Akter Hossain said the arrests were made during drives in different police station areas across the capital on Thursday (November 5).
Further legal action against the arrestees is underway, he added.
-AJM