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JMB suspect arrested

15 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Our Correspondent, Manikganj

Manikganj Sadar police on Sunday night arrested a JMB suspect from a rented house at village Dashara. Arrestee Shafiqul Islam, 26, is son of Salam Bepari of village Moamari under Nageswari police station in Kurigram district. Shafiqul told this correspondent that he came to the village to spread JMB ideology and recruit workers about six months ago. He was first sheltered by a leader of Manikganj district unit Jamaat-e-Islami at Bewtha. Later, he rented the house of one Ashraf at Dashara.