Law enforcement agencies and security agencies arrested 389 on Sunday across the country in the ongoing Operation Devil Hunt, raising the total number of arrests in the drive to 4,790 since the operation began on February 8.
They also seized one pipe gun and an axe in 24 hours ending at 8:00am Sunday, said a police headquarters press release.
Outside the Operation Devil Hunt, 751 arrests were made on Sunday in different types of cases across the country and the total number of arrests on the day was 1,140, the release added.
Earlier on Saturday, 1,347 individuals, including 477 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested. On February 9, total 1,308 people were arrested, according to police officials.聽
On February 10, total 1,521, including 343 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested. On February 11, another 1,775 people, including 607 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested. On February 13, total 1,686, including 591 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested and on February 14, total of 1,457 people, including 509 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested.
During the time, a total of 11,899 people, mostly Awami League leaders and activists, were arrested, police officials said.
At least 15 members of the Students Against Discrimination were injured in a counter attack by local people over an alleged attack on the ousted AL government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, leading to the death of Abdul Kashem, 17, one of the injured, while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The Operation Devil Hunt was announced in the aftermath of a spate of attacks carried out on the houses of Awami League leaders, party offices, and the murals and portraits of the country鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and his daughter deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina since February 5 when the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum building at Dhanmondi 32 in Dhaka was razed to the ground.
The chaotic situation ensued when different groups on their social media platforms called on people to join the 鈥楤ulldozer procession鈥� to demolish the Dhanmondi 32 building over the speech of Sheikh Hasina, now sheltered in India following her ouster amid a mass uprising, to the country鈥檚 student community online on February 5 evening.
