DHAKA, June 26, 2025 (BSS) – The defence ministry’s inter service public relations directorate (ISPR) today said military-led joint forces in a weeklong nationwide drive arrested 385 crime suspects like identified terrorists and perpetrators of mob violence.

“Units under several infantry divisions and independent brigades of Bangladesh Army carried a few joint operations in different parts of the country including the capital in collaboration with other law enforcement agencies from June 19, 2025 to June 26, 2025,” the ISPR said in a statement.

It said the operations yielded arrest of 385 crime suspects like identified terrorists or gangsters and perpetrators of mob violence, extortionists, adolescent gang members and people illegally possessing weapons.

According to the ISPR others who were rounded up in the drive included alleged smugglers, abductors, land grabbers, robbers, people engaged in misappropriating of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) goods, illegal manpower recruiters, traders involved in food adulteration and drug traders and addicts.

It said during the drive, the joint forces seized 26 illegally possessed firearms, 70 different types of ammunition, 11 cocktails or petrol bombs, illegal drugs of various types, different locally-made weapons and stolen goods like laptops, mobile phones and money.

The ISPR said the people arrested were handed over to concerned police stations for interrogations and initiate subsequent legal process.

“To ensure the public security nationwide, the military is conducting routine patrols at different areas,” said the statement that simultaneously urged people to report to nearby military camps if they come cross any suspicious activities.