Staff Reporter :
One of the seven suspected militants arrested in Mymensingh is a leader of ruling party’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Police sources said.
Al-Amin, 25, is the Vice-President of Chhatra League’s Dhobaura Union unit in the district, they said.
Nazmul Haq, Joint Secretary of Awami League’s Dhobaura Upazila unit, said that all of Al-Amin’s relatives had been involved with the Awami League politics and
its front organisations. “His detention came as a surprise.”
“We could not reach him, but learned afterward that he was arrested as a suspected militant,” saying it, the AL leader demanded a fair investigation.
He said that the party would take steps against Al-Amin if he was found involved with militant groups.
Al-Amin’s father Iqbal Hossain said that his son had started assisting him in his business after finishing ninth grade.
He was supposed to sit for the SSC examination from Dhobaura Open University centre three years ago, but did not do so since he had been occupied with the business, the father said.
Al-Amin had gone to Mymensingh on March 27 to get money from a friend who had bought a motorcycle from Al-Amin, he added.
Dhobaura Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shawkat Alam said that the investigators had been looking into Al-Amin’s alleged militant links.
Police detained the seven men from a house in Mymensingh town’s Kalibari area on Monday with books preaching radical views and electronic items.
One of the seven suspected militants arrested in Mymensingh is a leader of ruling party’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Police sources said.
Al-Amin, 25, is the Vice-President of Chhatra League’s Dhobaura Union unit in the district, they said.
Nazmul Haq, Joint Secretary of Awami League’s Dhobaura Upazila unit, said that all of Al-Amin’s relatives had been involved with the Awami League politics and
its front organisations. “His detention came as a surprise.”
“We could not reach him, but learned afterward that he was arrested as a suspected militant,” saying it, the AL leader demanded a fair investigation.
He said that the party would take steps against Al-Amin if he was found involved with militant groups.
Al-Amin’s father Iqbal Hossain said that his son had started assisting him in his business after finishing ninth grade.
He was supposed to sit for the SSC examination from Dhobaura Open University centre three years ago, but did not do so since he had been occupied with the business, the father said.
Al-Amin had gone to Mymensingh on March 27 to get money from a friend who had bought a motorcycle from Al-Amin, he added.
Dhobaura Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Shawkat Alam said that the investigators had been looking into Al-Amin’s alleged militant links.
Police detained the seven men from a house in Mymensingh town’s Kalibari area on Monday with books preaching radical views and electronic items.
