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Sunday | October 25, 2026 | Dhaka

684 arrested in DMP raids across Dhaka

 Staff Reporter
 Published: 12:03 AM, 25 October 2026

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 684 people and filed 44 cases during raids across the capital over the past 24 hours, seizing drugs, cash and other items.

The arrests were made on Friday in different police station areas across Dhaka, according to a DMP press release issued on Saturday.

Mirpur division recorded the highest number of arrests, with 206, followed by Tejgaon with 110 and Wari with 87.

Motijheel and Gulshan each accounted for 78 arrests, while police arrested 47 people in Lalbagh, 38 in Ramna and 32 in Uttara.

The Special Reserve Unit and the Detective Branch each arrested four people during the operations.
Police seized 2,508 yaba tablets, 23 kilograms of cannabis and 498 grams of heroin during the raids.

Other seized items included 18 mobile phones, 79 SIM cards, a motorcycle, an auto-rickshaw with four batteries, Tk 32,530 in cash, 104 gambling cards, eight notebooks and a smoking pipe containing cannabis, along with a cutter.

Further legal proceedings against the arrested suspects were underway, the press release said.