478 Arrested in Dhaka Metropolitan Police Operations

Dhaka:A total of 478 individuals were apprehended by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) during regular operations over the past 24 hours, concluding on Saturday morning.

According to United News of Bangladesh, these operations also resulted in the filing of 62 cases. The police seized various illegal substances including 14.045 kg of cannabis, 1,633 Yaba pills, and 2.5 grams of heroin.

Additionally, the authorities confiscated five mobile phones, 17 bicycles, Tk 47,090 believed to be proceeds from drug sales, two exploded smoke bomb casings, and fragments from eight exploded cocktails. The arrests were distributed across multiple divisions 29 from Ramna, 58 from Lalbagh, 74 from Wari, 39 from Motijheel, 71 from Tejgaon, 127 from Mirpur, 23 from Gulshan, and 51 from Uttara. Another five arrests were made by SRU-1 and the Detective Branch (DB).