Chhatra League leader among seven arrested militant suspects

Al Amin, one of the seven suspected militants arrested on Monday, is a union level leader of Chhatra League.

He is the vice-president of Baghber union BCL under Mymensingh's Dhobaura upazila, Saurob Hossain Milon, general secretary of the Chhatra League unit, told The Daily Star.

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“We've heard about his arrest as a suspected militant. If he is found involved in militancy, he will be expelled from the organisation,” said Milon.

Al Amin used to take part in the student front's programmes regularly, he added.

The six other arrestees are Shahidul Islam, 28, and Ashiqur Rahman, 19, of Mymensingh's Haluaghat; Masum Ahmed, 30, Shah Al Hossain Shamim, 27, Ruman Miah, 27, of Netrakona's Purbadhala; and Nasir Uddin, 27, of the district's Mohanganj.

Police claimed to have arrested the seven at a one-storey building on Boro Kalibari Road in Mymensingh town. Most of them were staying there for several months.

According to Shawkat Alam, officer-in-charge of Dhobaura Police Station, Al Amin's father Iqbal Hossain, a hatchery businessman, is involved in Awami League politics and his cousin Zakir Hossain is the president of Baghber union BCL.

Al Amin, who ran a shop of fertilizer and fish feed at Munshirhat Bazar, left home on March 27 for Mymensingh for a business purpose.

The following day, his phone was found switched off. He didn't communicate with his family members after that, his father Iqbal told this correspondent.

He said there was nothing suspicious about his son's behaviour. 

Zakir said his cousin Al Amin got acquainted with arrestee Shahidul, a fish farmer, about two years ago. Later, they jointly started fish feed business in Haluaghat.

Police said a case was filed with Kotwali Police Station against the seven arrestees under the Anti-terrorism Act.