Dhaka, Oct. 20 -- Detectives have detained 84 people, including 26 women, and seized drugs in a raid on a house rented out by a senior police officer in Dhaka.

The raid took place early Tuesday at a three-storey house in Police Housing-1, under Khilkhet Police Station, said Md Shafiqul Islam, additional commissioner and chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police's Detective Branch.

A team from the Detective Branch's Uttara Division acted on intelligence that the house hosted "DJ parties, drug use and drug dealing" throughout the night.

Those detained include 58 men and a citizen of Afghanistan.

Shafiqul said the house belonged to Abdullah Al Zahir, an additional deputy inspector general at Police Headquarters, who had rented it out throug...