Staff Reporter :
Police have arrested 15 alleged members, including the Regional Head of the banned Islamist outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir, in Chattogram.
They were arrested during a series of raids conducted by Chattogram Metropolitan Police (South Zone) in the port city’s Anderkilla Shahi Jame Masjid, Chandgaon residential area, and Bayezid on Friday evening.
Law enforcers confiscated a huge quantity of leaflets, over Tk 200,000 in cash, two laptops, electronic devices along with the organisation’s charter and training manual, reports our Chattogram Correspondent quoting police.
“The outlawed organisation is still active. Many of the arrested members are students. Their parents believed they were going out for coaching. But they were involved in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir,” said Amena Begum, Additional Commissioner (Crime) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP).
Among the captured men were Abul Mohammad Ershadul Alam, 39, the leader of the organisation’s Chattogram Metropolitan Chapter, and his Deputy Abdullah Al Mahfuz, 30, said CMP South Zone’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Shah Abdur Rouf.
Two members of Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested at Anderkilla Shahi Jame Masjid on Friday evening, said Amena Begum. Based on the information they divulged, police subsequently nabbed Ershadul and 10 other operatives from the Khadija Mansion in Chandgaon.
The remaining two members were arrested during raids in the Panchlaish and Polytechnic areas, the police said.
Legal action has been taken against the Hijbut men on Saturday, according CMP media.
