2 Hizb-ut-Tahrir men held in Gazipur

Staff Correspondent, Gazipur: The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two suspected members of banned militant group Hizb-ut-Tahrir Bangladesh from Sreepur upazila on Tuesday (May 14).

RAB came up with the information in a press release on Thursday morning.

The arrestees are Hamid Siraji, 33, son of Suruzzaman Sheikh of Sirajganj; and Osama Fazle, 29, son of Abu Hena Fazle Elahi of Dhanmondi.

Acting on a tiff-off, a team of RAB-1, led by Lt Commander Abdullah Al-Mamun, raided the house of one Delwar in the afternoon and arrested them.

Twenty-three Jihadi books, a notebook and a mobile phone were also seized during the raid.

RAB said Siraji and Fazle worked as ‘think tanks’ and financers of the group.


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