Police arrested two men in Chattogram city after recovering a foreign pistol and four rounds of ammunition, according to police. Mohammad Asif, 25, and Saidul Islam, also known as Arif, 24, were detained during a raid near Wajedia playground on the Oxygen–Koyesh Road in the Bayezid Bostami police station area on the night of July 27. Police said Asif was a fugitive accused named in a warrant in another case.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Additional Commissioner for Crime and Operations Muhammad Faisal Ahmed said officers had launched the operation to arrest Asif. He said Asif and his companion tried to flee after noticing police presence. Police recovered a foreign pistol from Asif's waist, with two rounds loaded in its magazine, and found two more rounds in Arif's trouser pocket. They could not produce valid licences or documents for the weapon and ammunition, police said.

Police claimed the two men said during initial questioning that they were associates of identified criminal David Emon and were involved in extortion and other criminal activities using illegal weapons. An Arms Act case has been filed at Bayezid Bostami police station. Mobar Hossain Emon said he did not know the detainees and denied they were his associates. Police records list 11 cases against Asif and two extortion cases against Arif.