The first day of the countrywide joint drives to recover illegal arms and bring drug dealers to book apparently was a lackluster one.
No significant arrests and arms recovery were reported except Rapid Action Battalion claimed that it arrested Diamond World Limited managing director from the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area in the wee hours of Wednesday.
RAB media and legal wing director lieutenant colonel Munim Ferdous said that they had arrested Diamond World managing director Dilip Kumar Agarwala.
鈥楻AB-3 has set up a check post adjacent to Hotel Intercontinental today. All units of RAB are ready to conduct separate and joint drives to bring law and order situation under control,鈥� Munim told 抖阴精品.
The Police Headquarters on Tuesday shared that 5,829 different types of weapons were looted and 3,763 were recovered.
The police are yet to recover 2,066 weapons and 3,20,660 rounds of ammunitions so far.聽
PHQ public relations officer AKM Kamrul Ahsan said that as it was the first of the operations, many units were preparing.
鈥榃e will update you about the outcome and mobilise our activities from tomorrow,鈥� Kamrul said to 抖阴精品 on Wednesday night.
After a law and order meeting at the home ministry on Tuesday, home adviser retired Lieutenant General Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that the countrywide joint operations would begin midnight past Tuesday across the country, mainly to recover illegal arms.
He also asked the members of the law enforcement agencies to bring godfathers behind drug peddling to book.
In the joint operations, the interim government engaged military, police, RAB, Border Guard Bangladesh and Ansar.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court placed Diamond World Limited managing director Dilip Kumar Agarwala on a three-day remand on Wednesday in a murder case.
Dilip was placed on remand in a case filed over the murder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Ridoy Ahmed, who was killed in front of BRAC University in Badda, Dhaka on July 19 during the student-led mass uprising, Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha reported.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order as the police pleaded for seven-day remand for Dilip.
Ridoy was killed when the police opened fire on agitating students and ordinary people in the Badda area.
Shahadat Hossain, joint secretary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 Shibchar upazila unit of Madaripur district, filed the case on August 22 against 161 persons, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who resigned and fled to India on August 5.
Dilip, a member of the Awami League central sub-committee on Industry and Commerce, were made accused in the case where Hasina鈥檚 sister Sheikh Rehena and son Sajeeb Wazed Joy were also accused.
Earlier on Monday, the Criminal Investigation Department launched an investigation against Dilip over allegations of laundering money and smuggling gold and diamonds.
CID said that Financial Crime Unit of the department had been tasked with conducting the investigation.
