Five Jamaat men held on subversion charge

Law enforcers detained five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from Dakkhin Rajarampur village in Senbag upazila on Sunday.

The arrestees are Mohammad Masud, 28, Mohammad Enayet, 30, Jahirul Islam, 28, Saiful Islam, 30, and Abul Bashar, 28.

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Officer-in-Charge Abdur Razzak of Senbag Police Station said a police team, acting on a tip-off, raided a house at the village around 2:00am and arrested the five from there.

They were holding a 'secret' meeting and planning to carry out subversive activities to hinder the execution of Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, the OC added.

The detainees are also accused in the cases for vandalising and torching vehicles and offices during the countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Away in Rajbari, police arrested two Jamaat leaders in Rajbari Sadar upazila on Sunday, reports our Kushtia correspondent.

Awlad Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said police raided different areas of the town and detained Hafizur Rahman, general secretary of Jamaat's Rajbari municipal unit, and Abdur Razzak, general secretary of Sadar upazila unit.

The arrestees were yesterday produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court that sent them to jail.