Law enforcement agencies arrested 29 more people at places in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on Tuesday as joint drives to contain criminal activities including robbery, drugs, extortion and mugging were on.
The police, the army and the Rapid Action Battalion conducted the drives and arrested the people for their alleged involvement in criminal activities such as mugging, robbery and extortion, said a press release of the Police Headquarters issued on Tuesday signed by Mohammadpur police station officer-in-charge Ali Iftekhar Hasan.
At about 3:30am on Tuesday, a joint team of the army and police in a raid arrested seven people in the camp for the Urdu-speaking people in Mohammadpur and seized two revolvers, 20 rounds of bullets and five machetes, the release said, adding that a case was also filed with the Mohammadpur police station for possessing illegal arms.
The RAB in another drive arrested nine people in four separate cases.
Of the arrested, one was arrested in drugs case, five were arrested in three robbery cases and one for possessing drugs, the PHQ release said, adding that they also seized one machete, one knife and one battery-run auto-rickshaw.
The Mohammadpur police, meanwhile, in different drives arrested 13 people accused in several cases.
The arrested included three active robbery gang members, five people accused of robbery, three professional thieves and two people were arrested under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Act.
鈥榃e are conducting block raids and special drives and have set up check points to give relief to the inhabitants of Mohammadpur and bring the law and order situation under control,鈥� DMP Tejgaon Division deputy commissioner Mohammad Ruhul Kabir Khan said at a press briefing at the Mohammadpur police station on Monday afternoon.
At least 34 people were arrested on Monday and 29 of them were produced before court while 45 were arrested on Sunday in joint drives and 30 of them were sent to jail through court orders.
Mohammadpur police station officer-in-charge Ali Iftekhar Hasan told 抖阴精品 that they had already set up a temporary army and police joint camp at Mohammadpur Government High School for monitoring the Urdu-speaking people鈥檚 camp.
鈥楾wo other army camps were also set up at Dhaka Udyan and in Chand Residential Area to check crimes. The drives against miscreants will be continued,鈥� he added.聽聽
In the past, Awami League leaders allegedly provided support to area-based miscreants and teenage gangs, police officials said.
After the fall of the AL regime on August 5, Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders are allegedly supporting them, they added.
On Saturday evening, a group of students and leaders of different social organisations went to the Mohammadpur police station.
They blamed police inaction for the deteriorating law and order situation and demanded addressing the situation within 72 hours.
