486 arrested in DMP drives

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 486 people and filed 49 cases during its regular drives across the capital in the past 24 hours.

The information was disclosed in a DMP press release on Tuesday (October 20).

Of the arrests, 167 were made by Mirpur Division, 96 by Tejgaon, 50 by Wari, 42 by Uttara, 35 each by Lalbagh and Motijheel, 33 by Ramna, 24 by Gulshan and four by the Detective Branch.

Police also recovered a foreign-made pistol, 10kg of cannabis, 17,216 yaba pills, 10 mobile phones, Tk 13,770 and rescued two victims.