Law-enforcers in separate drives in the capital on Wednesday arrested five people including four students on charge of being involved with the banned Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh.
A team of Rapid Action Battalion arrested Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh chapter senior adviser Mahmudul Bari, 41, at Shahjalal International Airport at around 1pm, said RAB legal and media wing deputy director major Khurshid Alam.
Mahmudul Bari, managing director of Silver Sand Reality, a real estate firm, was scheduled to leave for Malaysia later in the afternoon.
Bari allegedly had been playing a key role in the organisation after the arrest of senior Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders including Mohiuddin Ahmed, Golam Moula, and Kazi Morshedul Huq, RAB officials claimed.
Earlier at about 6am, the Gulshan police arrested four students of Southeast University at Banani when they were pasting posters of Hizb ut-Tahrir on roadside walls in the area. The posters were inscribed with anti-government statements.
The arrested students were Anisur Rahman, 24, Sabbir Ahmed Bhuiyan, 21, Afzal Hossain, 21, and Maruf Islam Nadim, 20.
The police also recovered a large quantity of leaflets and other publications from their possession, said additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman.
Earlier on October 22, 2009, the government banned the Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh in the interest of public security.
Source : New Age
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