Law enforcement and security agencies arrested 589 individuals more on Monday across the country in the ongoing Operation Devil Hunt, taking the total number of arrests in the drive to 9,253 since the operation began on February 8.
They also seized one foreign pistol, three magazines, one goods-laden truck and 250 grams of cannabis during the 24-hour period ending at 8:00am on Monday, said a police headquarters press release.
On the day, 1,543 individuals, including 589 in Operation Devil Hunt were arrested while 954 people were arrested in other cases.
On February 23, 1,493 individuals, including 585 in the ongoing Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested while 1,341 individuals, including 769 in the ongoing Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested on February 22.
On February 21, 1,650 individuals, including 461 in the devil hunt drive, were arrested and 1,752 individuals, including 492 in the Operation Devil Hunt were arrested on February 20.
Earlier on February 19, 1,583 individuals, including 532 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested.
On February 18, 1,647 individuals, including 506 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested, while 1,503 arrests, including 529 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were made on February 17.
On February 16, 1,140 people, including 389 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested, while on February 15, 1,347 individuals, including 477 in the operation, were arrested.
On February 13, total 1,665 arrests, including 566 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were made, and on February 14, total 1,457 arrests, including 509 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were made.
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 12, total 1,686 people, including 591 in the Operation Devil Hunt, were arrested.
On February 9, total 1,308 people were arrested, according to police officials.
From February 8 till Monday morning, total 26, 620 people, mostly Awami League leaders and activists, were arrested, police officials said.
On the night of February 7, at least 15 members of Students Against Discrimination were injured in a counter attack by local people over an alleged attack on the former liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque of the ousted AL government, leading to the death of Abdul Kashem, 17, one of the injured, while undergoing treatment at 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 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 a speech of Sheikh Hasina, now sheltered in India following her ouster amid a student-led mass uprising on February 5 evening.
