3 Tahrir men held in city

Police on Friday arrested three operatives of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir with some leaflets which they were distributing to the devotees at Azad Mosque in city's Gulshan.

Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, said they first caught Isa Khan, 24, red handed while he was distributing the leaflets just before starting the Juma prayer at noon in the mosque.

Isa Khan's two other cohorts--Delwar Hossain, 25, and Nayem Abdulla, 24, who escaped from the scene--were arrested from the city's Niketon areas little later, he added.

Isa Khan completed graduation last year from North South University, Nayem is a student of Dhaka International University while Delwar is a higher secondary level student under Open University, police said.

The OC said the statements of the recovered leaflets urged army to come foreword in 'rescuing' the nation from the alleged 'grip' of both ruling Awami League and BNP.