Some 36 cases were filed at several police stations across Dhaka over the violence on Oct 28.
According to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), around 1,544 named suspects were accused in the cases.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir was arrested in a case over an attack on the residence of the chief justice and sent to jail.
Police arrested 696 people in connection with the violence.
According to KN Roy Niyati, additional deputy commissioner of DMP, police arrested 256 on Sunday, Many unnamed individuals were also included as suspects
in these cases, he added.
BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul and Mirza Abbas are among the 164 suspects named in connection with the killing of a policeman.
Six cases have been filed over arson and property damage.
Some 50 people, including Mirza Abbas, was named as suspects in one of the cases. Another 700 – 800 people were also accused.