Police have arrested 17 suspected members of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Dhaka.
The arrests were made by an anti-terrorism police unit in Kakarail at around 7:00pm on Monday, according to Tohidul Islam, assistant deputy commissioner of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime.
Police confiscated 19 mobile phones, about Tk 234,000 and $922 in cash from the arrestees. They later confessed to being operatives of the outlawed outfit, according to a bdnews24.com report.
A case has been started against them under the anti-terrorism law with the Ramna Police Station.
