Dhaka, April 27 -- Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) have arrested 56 leaders and activists of the banned Chhatra League and various associate bodies of the Awami League in a number of operations over the past seven days, to curb the flash processions (jhotika michil) in the capital, the Detective Branch (DB) said on Saturday evening.

Based on secret information, various teams of the DB conducted drives across the capital between April 19 and April 25, resulting in the arrests. The detainees face allegations of attempting to destabilize law and order and creating panic among the public through sudden protest processions, said DMP's DC (Media) Md Talebur Rahman.

Among the arrestees, Shamim Ahmed Shahid, Joint General Secretar...