Staff
Correspondent: Dhaka, Sept-07,
Police have arrested 10 leaders and members of
Jamaat-e-Islami from the capital’s Bashundhara residential area on Monday
evening.
Based on a tip-off, a team of Dhaka Metropolitan
Police (DMP) arrested them while holding a secret meeting at an apartment in
the area.
The arrestees are- Jamaat-e-Islami's central
secretary general (GS) Mia Golam Parwar; assistant secretaries general Rafiqul
Islam Khan and Hamidur Rahman Azad; central executive committee members Abdur
Rob, Izzat Ullah, Mubarak Hossain; former Chhatra Shibir central president
Yasin Arafat and three Jamaat office employees.
ADC media of DMP Iftekhairul Islam said that
acting on a secret tip, a team of DMP arrested the Jamaat-e-Islami members
while they were attending a secret meeting in the city.
Meanwhile, in an official statement after the
incident, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Shafiqur Rahman condemned and protested the
arrest of the 10 members of the party and
asked for their unconditional release.
The meeting was referred to as a part of
Jamaat’s 'regular activity' in the official statement.
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