Dhaka, Nov. 9 -- Police have arrested 25 leaders and activists of the Awami League and its affiliate organisations on charges of planning to release 100,000 balloons in Dhaka.

Citing the initial interrogation of the arrested persons, a Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) media statement on Sunday said they aimed to create panic among members of the public by taking out a procession in Dhaka and disrupting law and order.

The arrested persons had also planned to release gas balloons bearing Awami League slogans around the chief advisor's residence Jamuna and other different places in Dhaka between Monday and Wednesday, police added.

The police's Detective Branch (DB) officers conducted drives in different areas of Dhaka in the past 24 hours ...