Police have arrested the ‘top leader’ of the banned militant outfit Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh or HuJi-B along with two others in the capital.
Md Atiqullah alias Zulfikar, 49, who had once met Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, recently returned to the country in order to reform HuJi-B, according to the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit of police, reports bdnews24.com.
The other arrestees were identified as Md Borhan Uddin Rabbani, 42, and Mohammad Nazim Uddin alias Shameem, 43.
They were apprehended from a field adjoining a mosque in Khilket’s Nikunja-2 Residential Area on Wednesday afternoon, said Touheedul Islam, assistant superintendent of anti-terror police.
“A case has been started against them with Khilket police under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Police will present them in court and seek a 10-day remand order against them.”