Staff Reporter :
Two women surrendered along with two kids during a police raid in a two-storey suspected militant hideout at Bamondi village in Gangni upazila of Meherpur district on Saturday morning.
They were identified as Mabia Khatun, 33, of Bhabanipur village in the upazila, and Rajani Khatun, 40, of Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia district, Superintendent of Police, Meherpur, Anisur Rahman told reporters in a press briefing after ending the raid in the afternoon.
The law enforcers entered the house which was owned by Mestak Ali, but found nothing suspicious inside, the police official said, adding that they cordoned off the house at 8:00am during heavy rainfall.
The two women, Mabia and Rajani, wearing burkas, came out of ground floor of the house with two children when police asked them to surrender around 12:30pm, the SP said.
Earlier in the morning, the law enforcers detained Mostak Ali, 33, the son of the house owner who lives in Saudi Arabia, he said.
Mostak however failed to inform about the profession of his tenants, who rented the house one year and a half years ago, he said.
The women and their husbands were being interrogated in this connection at Gangni Police Station, the SP said.
Anisur Rahman said that there is no one in the house so that police ended the drive.
