Dhaka, May 2 -- Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has played down concerns over a resurgence of notorious criminals, suggesting that top gang figures "hardly exist" in the city anymore.

Acting Commissioner Md Sarwar vowed suppression of anyone seeking dominance regardless of circumstances while responding at the Karwan Bazar police camp inauguration on Saturday.

The discussion follows a recent incident on Tuesday where two masked motorcyclists shot a man dead near New Market around 8pm.

Police later identified the dead as Khandaker Naim Ahmed Titon, a name featured on the list of 23 "top criminals" released by the then BNP-Jamaat government in 2001.

Titon, the brother-in-law of another notorious figure, Sanjidul Islam Emon, was historic...