 Around 286,000 people, including former ministers, lawmakers, political leaders and business tycoons, have been arrested across the country on charges of crime and corruption since the state of emergency was declared on January 11.
| Over a quarter million people? My mind just boggled. |
| That's on a population of 150 million. I think they need to arrest some more. |
Of them, police held over 260,000, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) about 9,000 and the army-led joined forces over 17,000 throughout the country, home ministry sources told the news agency.
| That says Bangla's been arresting over 1500 people per day for the past 190 days, with no days off. |
Besides, police netted about 2100 firearms, over 1280 other weapons and over 25,000 rounds of ammunition, while Rab seized over 1022 firearms, 17148 rounds of bullet, 423 explosives and 474 other weapons during the drives. The arrested persons also include over 600 "listed criminals" held by police. The high profile arrests were made after Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker government declared war on corruption and criminal godfathers. |