Jamaat ameers, secretaries held

Police detained five leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami while they were allegedly holding a secret meeting in Moulvibazar Sadar upazila.

On Thursday night, police conducted a drive at the house of one Zakir Hossain in Shahbandar area of Kanakpur union of the upazila and detained the five men, said Mohammad Harun-ur-Rashid Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Moulvibazar Sadar Police Station.

The detainees are Moulvibazar district Jamaat Ameer Shahed Ali, Secretary Yamir Ali, Moulvibazar Sadar upazila unit Ameer Fakhrul Islam, Moulvibazar municipal Jamaat Secretary Morshed Chowdhury, and Moulvibazar district Jamaat member Sheikh Shahabuddin.

The process of filing a case against the detainees is underway, added the OC.