DMP arrests 465 in 24 hours in Dhaka, 149 from Mirpur alone
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 465 people in its regular drives across the capital in the last 24 hours. The highest number of arrests — 149 — came from Mirpur. During this period, 51 cases were filed for various offences.
The arrests were made on Monday (9 November) in raids conducted in different police station areas of the capital. DMP Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) Md. Akhtar Hossain shared the information in a press release on Tuesday (10 November).
According to DMP, apart from Mirpur's 149, 22 people were arrested in Ramna division, 59 in Lalbagh, 43 in Wari, 59 in Motijheel, 56 in Tejgaon, 38 in Gulshan, 38 in Uttara division, and one by the Detective Branch (DB).
The drives recovered one unexploded cocktail and parts of cocktails, 669 yaba tablets, 200 grams of cannabis, a machine used for cutting cannabis, and 11 mobile phones.
The press release said legal proceedings against those arrested are under way.
Meanwhile, police arrested Md. Abdul Wahid, general secretary of the Lake City unit of the Awami League, from Khilkhet in the capital. He was arrested in a case over a cocktail explosion and holding a procession on behalf of the banned Awami League.
In Dhaka's Savar and Dhamrai, two parked buses caught fire. The incidents took place at separate locations on Monday night. With these, eight buses have been set on fire in Savar and Dhamrai in the last six days.
On the other hand, prices of food items in the country have fallen somewhat compared to before, but prices of non-food goods and services have risen further. This picture emerged from the October inflation figures published by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) on Monday.
After the tragic fires at Nimtoli and Churihatta in Old Dhaka, the initiative to relocate chemical warehouses and factories to Sirajdikhan in Munshiganj is now almost at its final stage.
