Law enforcement agencies and security forces on Monday arrested 1,521 people, including 343 in Operation Devil Hunt, aimed at restoring the country鈥檚 law and order.
In the operation, law enforcers also seized one foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 11 bullets, 10 cocktails, and locally-made weapons, the Police Headquarters said in a press release on Monday.
It said that 1,178 people were arrested on Monday for their involvement in several types of cases across the country, not under the ongoing Operation Devil Hunt.
The law enforcement agencies arrested 1,308 people on Sunday when the government launched the countrywide police-led joint forces operation.
The government announced to launch Operation Devil Hunt on February 8 in the backdrop of February 7 violent attacks on students and people, who were active in the July-August mass uprising, in Gazipur Friday night. The incident left 15 students injured.
Talking to reporters at Rajshahi Circuit House on Monday, home adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said that the 鈥極peration Devil Hunt鈥� would continue until freeing society from 鈥榙evils鈥�.
Many leaders of the Awami League in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country are on the run to avoid arrest since February 8 night, hours after the home ministry on the day had announced to launch of the operation.
抖阴精品 correspondent in Gazipur, quoting police officials, reported that at least 96 people, mostly AL leaders and activists, were arrested at places in Gazipur during the operation.
Of the arrestees in Gazipur, 21 people, including former AL lawmaker for Sirajganj-6 constituency Chayan Islam, were arrested by the district police.
Gazipur Metropolitan police arrested 75 people, including Mahila Juba League city unit president Anowara Sarkar, at places in the city, said GMP deputy commissioner Alamgir Hossain.
Out of the 75 people arrested in the city, 72 were arrested in Sunday鈥檚 case filed with Gazipur Sadar police station over the attack on the members of the Students Against Discrimination, Gazipur Sadar police station officer-in-charge Md Mehedi Hasan said.
鈥楨arlier, we arrested 38 people in the case. A total of 110 people were arrested so far in the case,鈥� he added.
Eight more leaders and activists of Juba League, Swechchhasebak League, and banned student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League were arrested in Khagrachari on Monday during the 鈥極peration Devil Hunt, BSS reported on the day.
The joint forces arrested four leaders and activists of the AL and the BCL while conducting operations at different places in Hatia Sunday night, said another BSS report.
The police detained 26 leaders and activists of the AL, JL and BCL in several cases lodged against them with different police stations in Chattogram city, 抖阴精品 Staff Correspondent in the port city reported.
A spate of attacks was 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 began 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 as Sheikh Hasina, now sheltered in India, was scheduled to address the country鈥檚 student community online on February 5 late evening.
The interim government led by Professor Muhammd Yunus assumed power on August 8, 2024, three days after the fall of the Awami League regime and ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled to India on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising.