Tousif Kaium

The newly launched Cyber Police Unit will monitor social media, fact-check unverified or false information targeting individuals and, when necessary, issue “counter-narratives” through a nationwide structure extending to police stations.

Despite the arrest of several suspects, three key accused remain at large in recent cases over alleged attempts to grab a plot in Chand Udyan and take over a residential building in Adabor and the vandalism and looting of the Radda healthcare centre in Mirpur.

A group of 15 to 20 men, some armed with machetes and other weapons, tried to forcibly enter a multi-storey building in Adabor early Saturday in an alleged attempt to take control of the property.

A few hundred people stormed a plot of land in Mohammadpur in broad daylight on Saturday, vandalised an office, looted cash and equipment, and then fenced off the property with corrugated roofing sheets.

Same gang ‘occupied’ property for over a year

A high-level police committee has identified violent crime, juvenile gangs, organised syndicates, and digital fraud as the country’s major law and order challenges after reviewing crime data from 2021 to May 2026.

Concerns are growing in Cumilla over violence, extortion and drug dealing by teenage gangs in different parts of the city, with residents living in fear as the groups openly march with weapons.

With the country heading towards local government elections, the government has launched a special nationwide drive to recover looted and illegal firearms.