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Fresh DMP drive as top terrors slip out

Kailash Sarkar
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) launches another five-day drive in the capital early today apparently to make up for the poor showing in its previous crackdown.
Despite participation of several hundred policemen in the drive between February 3 and 7, the DMP teams failed to hunt down any of the top terrors who pull the strings behind the city's organised crime.
They only managed to round up 'drug addicts or small-time peddlers or muggers', said sources involved in the anti-crime efforts.
DMP Commissioner Naim Ahmed however claimed it is the success of the last drive that has spurred them on to take fresh measures.
Talking to The Daily Star, he said the crackdown, which starts at 12:00am, would focus on professional killers, robbers, extortionists and other hardened criminals.
Meanwhile, Home Minister Sahara Khatun yesterday expressed concern over rise in
muggings.
Speaking as the chief guest at a function marking the 34th anniversary of DMP, she asked the police and Rab personnel to beef up their presence.
Of 524 people rounded up in the drive that ended last week, 271 were detained on charges of dealing in or possessing narcotics and 163 mugging.
Nineteen were held for links to ogyan and malam parties (gangs who drug their preys and make off with their belongings), nine for extortion, 18 for possessing illegal firearms, 13 for carjacking, 24 for robbery and seven on murder charges.
During the swoops, the met police recovered Tk 45,052 in cash, six tolas of gold, two tolas of silver, a wallet, a handbag, 14 mobile phone sets, 10 SIM cards, a welding machine, six knives, 31 motorcycles, 10 cans of balm, 1,710 pieces of tablets, three firearms, 1,402 bottles of Phensidyles, five gram heroin, 20 kg marijuana and 400 bottles of liquor.
No decrease in the intensity of criminal activities however suggests the arrests and recovery did tittle to stop the downward spiral in law and order, said police sources.
Holed up, most of the underworld kingpins have been using accomplices to carry out extortions, killings and other serious crimes, they added.
The top-listed criminals on the run include Subrata Bain. Shahadat of Mirpur. Imam and Milu of Gulshan, Omar F’ruq Kochi and Driver Shahid of Shyampur, Dakar Shahid and Alam of old Dhaka, Sabura, Mona. Uzzal, Mamun and Moksha of Jatrabari, Kala Mintu and Arif of Sutrapur. Khasi Jahangir. Kajol, Shahin, Amzad, Shankar, Masum and Salauddin of Kotwati, Nobi andTuhin ofAdabar, Jisan and Western Titu of Khilgaon, Shahzada of Sabujbagh, Akhter of Badda, Khokan of Motijheel, Mamun and Lat Saheb of Pallabi and Shahin SikderofKafrul.
Besides, gangs controlled by Sweden Aslam, Freedom Rashu and Pichchi Helal from behind bars have been active for the last few weeks.
Speaking in return for anonymity, a DM P official said special drives with announcements in the media are of little use, as they make the criminals aware long before the ball begins to roll, and help them evade the dragnet.