At least 12 people, including top drug peddler Chua Selim鈥檚 close associates Mahbub and Irfan with arms, were arrested from the Urdu speaking people鈥檚 camp in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur in an army-led joint drive on Friday.
The security personnel also recovered a revolver, eight rounds of ammunitions, five machetes and seven sharp weapons, said the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate in a press release issued later in the evening.
ISPR said that the arrested were handed over to the Mohammadpur police station.
Mohammadpur police station officer-in-charge Ali Iftekhar Hasan said that the joint drive was conducted at about 4:00am on Friday at the camp, also known as Geneva Camp.
鈥榃e have produced 11 before a Dhaka court and the court sent them to jail in an arms case,鈥� the OC added.
According to the people living in the camp, Boba Biriyani owner Altaf and his son Irfan was involved in drug peddling alongside Biriyani business.聽
OC Iftekhar also said that some of the arrested were also accused in drugs cases.
After the fall of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising, the camp situation became violent with gunfights, killings and drugs.