The Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 684 people and filed 44 cases during raids across the capital over the past 24 hours.

According to a DMP press release issued today, the arrests were made Friday in various police station areas across Dhaka.

They also seized drugs, mobile phones, cash and other items.

Mirpur division accounted for the highest number of arrests, with 206, followed by Tejgaon with 110, Wari with 87, Motijheel and Gulshan with 78 each, Lalbagh with 47, Ramna with 38 and Uttara with 32.

The Special Reserve Unit and the Detective Branch each arrested four people.

Police also seized 2,508 yaba tablets, 23 kilograms of cannabis and 498 grams of heroin during the operations. 

Other seized items included 18 mobile phones, 79 SIM cards, a motorcycle, an auto-rickshaw with four batteries, 32,530 taka in cash, 104 gambling cards, eight notebooks and a cannabis-filled smoking pipe with a cutter.

Further legal proceedings against the arrested suspects were underway.