In a joint operation conducted by the Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) and the district police on the third day of Operation Devil Hunt, a total of 81 individuals were arrested.
Among them, 69 were arrested by the Gazipur Metropolitan Police, while the police from five stations in the district arrested 12 individuals. Over the past three days, a total of 246 people have been arrested. Subsequently, the concerned police stations have presented them in court after showing them as arrested in various cases.
Deputy Commissioner of the Special Branch of Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP), Alamgir Hossain, and Gazipur District Superintendent of Police (SP), Dr Chowdhury Jaber Sadeq, confirmed the arrests.
The Officers-in-Charge (OCs) of the concerned police stations under the Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) reported the number of arrests as follows: 19 individuals from the Sadar Police Station area, 9 from the Basan Police Station area, 2 from the Konabari Police Station area, 6 from the Gacha Police Station area, 2 from the Pubail Police Station area, 5 from the Kashimpur Police Station area, 7 from the Tongi East Police Station area, 8 from the Tongi West Police Station area, 7 from the GMP Detective Branch (North) operation, and 4 from the GMP Detective Branch (South).
Gazipur District Superintendent of Police (SP), Dr Chowdhury Jaber Sadeq, said that 12 individuals were arrested in operations conducted across various areas under five police stations in the district.
On Friday night, allegations surfaced that after an attack on anti-discrimination students at the residence of former Minister for Liberation War Affairs, Advocate AKM Mozammel Haque, in the Dhirashram area of Gazipur Metropolitan City, the students were detained and beaten.
Fifteen students were injured in the incident. The following day, Saturday, Abdullah Mohit, the coordinator of the anti-discrimination movement in Gazipur, filed a case at the Gazipur Sadar Police Station, naming 239 individuals and accusing an additional 200 to 300 unidentified individuals.