Five Tahrir men arrested

Five operatives of banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested from two separate spots in Dhaka and Sylhet yesterday.
Our staff correspondent reports: Police arrested three of the operatives who were trying to hold a rally before Monowara Jame Mosque in the city's Katabon around 2:30pm.
Two of the arrestees, Nur-e-alam Mohammad Shihab Uddin and Abdul Matin, are students of Dhaka University while the third one, Abdul Matin, is a student of Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramic in the city's Tejgaon.
Sub-Inspector Mohammad Alam Mian of New Market Police Station said the trio was shouting slogans against the government while holding a banner.
Our Sylhet correspondent reports: Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two of the operatives, also students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, distributing the outfit's leaflets before Sheikhghat Boro Mosque in Sylhet city after Juma prayers.
The arrestees are Jewel Ahmed, in his final year at Bachelor of Business Administration and hailing from Sridhara village in Beanibazar upazila, and Atique Sarfaraj, of the civil and environmental engineering department and hailing from Barohatia area of Chittagong.
Rab handed them over to Sylhet Kotwali Police Station in the evening after filing a case in this connection.