Staff Reporter :
Five Jamaat-E-Islami activists were arrested by a team of Detective Branch of (DB) police from the city’s Banasree area on Saturday evening.
Police also recovered Tk 1,00,47,500 and some books from their possession.
The identities of the arrested Jamaat workers could not be known immediately, police said. Anwar Hossain, Deputy Commissioner (Motijheel Division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, said, “A team of detectives raided a house in Banasree area receiving secret information and arrested them with the money.”
They gathered in the house for making a plan of engineering sabotage marking January 5, the police official said.
“We are investigating the source of the money,” the DC said.
The arrested men are being interrogated in this connection, he said.
