Staff Reporter :Police arrested 23 activists of Jamaat-Shibir from capital Dhaka, Savar, Jhenaidah and three members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Chittagong in separate drives on Friday. In the latest on-going move, the law enforcers arrested them in connection with plotting to commit subversive activities as well as launching terror attacks in the city and elsewhere across the country again, police said. According to an intelligence official, the arrested militants had taken oath to “overthrow Sheikh Hasina’s government through armed and explosive struggle.” The arrested militants were suspected to have received various trainings, including armed one, said the official.In city, a special squad of police raided the Islamic International School on DIT Road in Merul Badda area yesterday and arrested 23 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir.Executed Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Matur Rahman Nizami’s wife runs the Islamic International School. “The names of arrested persons would not be possible to disclose right now. But they were involved in many cases, including unleashing a reign of terror across the country ahead of the 2014 national polls as well as three months mayhem from January to March in 2015,” said MA Jalil, Officer in Charge (OC) of Badda Police Station. He added that they were holding a secret meeting at the school and plotting to carryout subversive activities. After the recent targeted killing and terror attacks, it has been emerged that many of the suspected Islamist militants are involved with Chhatra Shibir. “Based on information extracted from the five suspected ATB men arrested earlier this month in Chittagong, these 23 Jamaat-Shibir men were arrested. The Shibir activists were involved in destabilising the country with the help of militant organisations,” the police official further said. Besides, detective branch police arrested a teacher of Savar Model College Touhid Hossain from the college premises early Friday on charge of destructive activities. Touhid Hossain is a Jamaat leader. Detective branch police handed him over to Savar Thana police. Later, the police produced Touhid to the court that sent him to jail yesterday.In another drive, a team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police arrested a lecturer of Jhenaidah Government Nurunnahar Women College on charge of plotting to subversive activities.The arrested teacher has been identified as SM Sadiqur Rahman alias Polash, a lecturer of economics department of the college. He is an active member of Hizb ut-Tahrir. He is son of Mohammad Shahjan Ali and hails from village Andolpota of Jessore district. Shamshul Alam, special police super of CID of Jessore and Kushtia range said as part of drive against the militants, they raided the college premises in the early hours of Friday and arrested Sadiqur. Police also seized jihadi books from his residence. “When he was studying in the Dhaka University in 2012, he got involved himself with the militant activities. And he was arrested from the campus while pasting posters in favour of of Hizb ut-Tahrir,” he said. In Chittagong, another special squad of plainclothes police in separate drives arrested three suspected members of ATB from different parts of the port city and Patiya upazila early Friday.The arrestees were identified as Farhad, a former student of Chittagong University, Mohammad Imran, student of Chittagong Polytechnic Institute, and Ahmed Hossain Rony, a student of Shyamoli Polytechnic Institute.Acting on a tip off, a team of DB police launched a drive in Pathantuli area under Double Mooring thana and arrested Farhad while another team arrested Imran from Shikolbaha area of the city, said Nazmul Ahsan, additional deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.Besides, DB police conducted a drive in Dhalghat area in Patiya upazila and arrested Ahmed Hossain, said the ADC.Police also recovered a laptop and some religious books from their possession.One month and 18 days after the terror attack in city’s Gulshan café on July 1, the jihadi group boasted that its “soldiers” would continue to launch terror attacks in country.The law enforcers will continue their drives until the last militant and terrorist in the country, engaged in destructive acts, is caught, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal now in London told The New Nation on Friday. ‘The joint drive will continue to resist subversive activities of the militants and terrorists so that they cannot reassemble and prepare for doing so again,’ he said,The police, RAB and BGB remain alert all the time in every places of the country. If any subversive activity happens in any place of the country, the joint force will conduct drives right away.
