Jihadi books, bombs seized in Rajshahi
An alleged Jamaat-e-Islami activist has been arrested with jihadi books during a raid on a “secret office” in the city's Seroil Kanchabazar area, police said yesterday.
Law enforcers conducted the raid on Sunday on a tip-off. The arrestee, Monirul Islam, 35, is a lab demonstrator of Masjid Mission School of Rajshahi, according to police.
More than 3,000 jihadi books, two crude bombs and hundreds of leaflets and banners of Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir were recovered during the raid, said Shahadat Hossain Khan, officer-in-charge of Boalia police.
The books seized include copies of Bangla translation of a publication of 1989 by Master Hei Long titled “Techniques of Silent Killing”.
The OC said the book had been found with a militant suspect in Britain and in several dens of militants in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country. There was another book on how to make explosives published by Ansarullah Bangla Blog.
On Sunday afternoon, Motiur was taking away several sacks full of books and leaflets by a rickshaw-van. Some of the books fell on the road as the rickshaw turned upside down, said local people.
From there people informed police of the books, they said.
Boalia police recorded a case against some 15 leaders of Jamaat and Shibir in this connection.
Rajshahi city Jamaat ameer Abul Hashem said Jamaat had rented the office on the ground floor of a two-storey building from Dawat-ul-Islam Trust six years ago. For the last two years, there has not been any political activity there.
Monirul has worked there as a peon, Abul said, adding that he had no knowledge of how those books ended up there at that office.
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