Jubo League men held for 'crime'
Police yesterday arrested a Jubo League leader with a knife at Godagari upazila yesterday after locals caught him red-handed while mugging two people on Idgah road near the municipal office.
Police identified the arrestee as Ismail Hossain, Ward No. 3 general secretary of the poura Jubo League.
Ismail and his accomplices waylaid Ziarul Islam and Aminul Islam while they were going to Bhagabantapur weekly market.
Witnesses and sources in police said, Ismail was trying to take away heroin from the two, both nephews of Char Asariadaha union Awami League's organising secretary.
The heroin packets were damaged before police reached the scene, said witnesses. However, the two victims told the police that they were carrying money, not heroin with them.
In Narayanganj, police in a drive on Friday arrested four Jubo League activists along with 150 bottles of phensidyl syrup from a house in Dapa area of Fatullah.
The arrested were identified as Delwar, 30, Pipon, 28, Alamgir, 27, and Suman, 32, reports UNB.
According to Fatullah Model police station they are the active members of Jubo League cadre Mollah-Jony group.
Police said acting on secret information they raided the tin-shed house of Delwar at about 1:00pm and arrested the four activists along with the contraband phensidyl syrup.
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