13 Hizb ut-Tahrir men arrested
Thirteen leaders and activists, including a private university teacher, of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh were arrested on Dhaka University campus and at Badda in the city yesterday.
DU correspondent reports: Police arrested four students of Dhaka University for their alleged link with the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh from Surya Sen Hall in the early hours of yesterday.
The arrestees were identified as Md Mohsin Hossain, a third year student of accounting and information systems, Md Abdul Hai Raju, a third year student of Finance, Zakirul Islam Parosh, a second year student of finance and Fahad Bin Rashid Nayan, a third year student of management studies department.
A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders of the hall caught the four and informed it to DU proctor.
Police rushed to the hall and arrested them around 2:00am after Proctor Dr KM Saiful Islam Khan informed the matter to the law enforcers.
Officer-in-Charge of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim told The Daily Star that the arrestees admitted to police that they were involvement with the banned outfit.
Asked weather they have gotten any information about Hizb ut-Tahrir activities on DU campus from them, Rezaul declined to say anything more about it right now.
He said resident students of the hall have handed some leaflets and several books, recovered from the rooms of arrestees, to police. He said the arrestees have been sent to a Dhaka court seeking a seven-day remand for them.
Hall sources said the BCL leaders have charged Raju after learning that he has distributed leaflets of the outfit among the students on the business studies faculty premises on Saturday.
"Raju has admitted to us that he, Mohsin and Nayan are involved with the organisation," said Shafiqul Islam, a BCL leader of DU unit and a resident of the hall.
Shafiqul said they have caught Parash when he was making calls to three other arrestees over the cellphones. He said they have searched the room of Parash and recovered some leaflets and a book of the outfit.
Meanwhile, the police arrested nine more leaders and activists of Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh, including a teacher and six students of State University, from a house at Badda late last night.
They were holding a meeting at the house at Basundhara Housing Project. A huge number of leaflets were recovered from their possession, said Badda Police Station Officer-in-Charge Kazi Wazed Ali.
The leaflets contain statements against the government, India and the USA, he said.
The teacher was identified as Mohammad Zakir Hossain and the students are Nazmul Hasan, Abdullah al Masud, Imtiaz Hossain, Mamunur Rashid, Arifuzzaman and Nasir Uddin. The two others are schoolteachers Mahbub Alam and Nurul Islam.
Acting on a tip-off, the police raided the house and detained the Hizb ut-Tahrir men, OC Wazed said.
A case was filed under Anti-Terrorism Act-2009, he said.
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