Md Joynal Abedin Khan :The ‘Aggyan party’ and ‘Malam party’ men have become active again ahead of upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.They use sedatives and ointment to make their prey temporarily blind and unconscious in order to loot money and valuables, detective police sources said. Such incidents, in most cases, occur in buses, shopping centres, bus terminals and branches of different banks, they said. More than 400 members of different organised Aggyan parties are active in the capital, Police Headquarters sources said. However, members of DB Police arrested 24 members of a dope gang from from Paltan and Shahjahanpur areas of the capital early Thursday, said Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner (Media and Public Relations) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).They snatched money and other valuables from the targeted people by feeding foods and water which mixed with sedative, the DC said.Mohammad Mashiur Rahman, an Executive Magistrate of Dhaka Metropolitan, sentenced the miscreants to two years jail, he said.The police official claimed that police seized sedatives, ointment mixed with red chilli powder and tiger balm from their possession during the raids.He said, the arrested gangs operate on three major exit routes of the capital – the Dhaka-Manikganj route, Dhaka-Tangail route and Dhaka-Mawa route.According to police sources, 26 cases were filed from January by DMP. Within this time, police arrested 53 accused and 12 suspected from the city. With this, a total of 83 dope gang members were arrested in the city this year.