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Eight Ansar-Al-Islam men held at Pallabi
DHAKA, Nov 8, 2018 (BSS) – Police arrested eight operatives of the
banned Islamist outfit Ansar-Al-Islam from the city Pallabi Thana area on
Wednesday night.
The arrestees, Md Safwanur Rahman,34, Sultan Mahmud,25, Md Nazrul
Islam,38, Md Abu Taher,36, Md Ilias Mridha,30, Md Ashraful Alam,24,
Hasnain,30, and Md Kamrul, 28, have been operating a NGO (non-government
organization) Small Kindness Bangladesh (SKB) at Pallabi area.
A squad of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) arrested the
eight from the NGO office at house no-644, road no-9 of Mirpur DOHS under
Pallabi Police Station around on Wednesday night, said a police official.
They also recovered over Taka 14 lakh in cash, one laptop, eight CPU
(computer processing unit), eight cheque books of different banks and 10
mobile phone sets from their possessions, he also said.
During preliminary interrogation they confessed their link to Pakistan
based organization Al Khidmat Foundation through which they were conducting
militant activities in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar, the police official
claimed.
Quoting the militants as saying, he also said that the arrestees has a
plan to detabilise the government and undermining the country’s image with
conducting large scale militant activities.
Legal action was taken against the arrestees to this end.
BSS/ASG-AHJ/IJ/1630 hrs