58 Jamaat, Shibir activists arrested
Police in separate drives rounded up 58 Jamaat-Shibir activists, 38 of them females, in Chittagong and Jhenidah districts yesterday.
In Chittagong, law enforcers arrested 18 Jamaat-Shibir men from different areas of Satkania and Lohagara upazilas early yesterday in connection with subversive activities at different times before the January 5 national election.
Sub-inspector Shamsul Alam of Satkania Police Station said police nabbed 10 Jamaat-Shibir men from Kanchana, Holdia and Chhadaha unions.
The arrestees stand accused in several cases over vandalism, arson attacks and attacking on-duty policemen, Shamsul added.
In another drive, police held eight Jamaat-Shibir activists from Putibila, Kolaujan and Bora Hatiya unions in Lohagara upazila, said Provat Kumar Kar, sub-inspector of Lohagara Police Station.
They are accused in several cases for vandalism and arson attacks, the police official mentioned.
Meanwhile, law enforcers detained 40 Jamaat activists, including 38 females, from Kaliganj upazila headquarters in Jhenidah yesterday morning. They also seized Jihadi books and other Islamic booklets from their possession, our district correspondent reports.
Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Police Station, said acting on secret information, a police team surrounded the house of Jamaat leader Abdus Sabur around 11:30am and caught the Jamaat activists while they were holding a meeting there.
Wishing not to be named, a Jamaat leader said Muslim women from different parts of the upazila gathered at the house on every Friday and held discussions on the holy Quran and Hadith.
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