UNB, Dhaka :Police have arrested 87 people, including 64 Jamaat-Shibir men, on various charges in Chittagong, Sylhet and Jhenidah districts.In Chittagong, police in a drive in the intervening night of Thursday and Friday arrested 35 people, including 22 Jamaat-Shibir men, from different areas of Satkania and Lohagara upazilas.The Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested in cases filed in connection with violence centring on the January 5 national election while the remaining people were wanted in various cases, said Imran Bhuiyan, assistant police super (Satkania circle).In Jhenidah, police arrested 40 alleged leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami, including 38 women members, from a house in Kaliganj upazila headquarters on Friday morning.Officer-in-Charge of Kaliganj Police Station Anwar Hossain said on secret information that huge female activists of Jamaat were holding a secret meeting at the house of local Jamaat leader Abdus Sabur Khan to commit subversive acts, they raided the house and arrested them.The OC said, they also recovered huge leaflets, posters and books published by Jamaat from the spot.In Sylhet, police arrested two Shibir leaders-Ziaul Hoque Zia and Kawser-from Topaban Khuliapara adjacent to Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Friday morning.The two, also SUST students, were arrested for their suspected involvement in the attack on university unit Bangladesh Chhatra League leader Uttam Kumar Das, said police.Masked criminals attacked BCL leader Uttam at a restaurant near the university’s main gate on Wednesday night. He is now undergoing treatment at a hospital in the capital.Later, the university authorities lodged a case accusing 15-16 people including Zabed, a Shibir leader, of being involved in the incident.
