Youth arrested from Dhaka's Dakshinkhan for stabbing Hefajat leader

Police arrested a youth on charge of stabbing Hefajat-e-Islam's central leader Jasim Uddin in Dhaka's Lalbagh area on Tuesday.

A team of police arrested Masum Hasan Imran, 30, yesterday from Dhaka's Dakshinkhan area, KM Ashraf Uddin, officer-in-charge of Lalbagh Police Station, told The Daily Star.

"He was seen in CCTV footage collected from nearby area after the attack. Hasan admitted to attacking Jasim Uddin. Police are interrogating him to know the motive," the OC said.

Maulana Jasim Uddin, assistant secretary general of Hefajat, was stabbed in the back when he was heading towards his Lalmatia home on a rickshaw from Jamia Qurania Arabia madrasa in Lalbagh around 5:00pm on that day.