8 Jamaat men held
Joypurhat: Police in a drive arrested eight leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami along with the party’s district amir from Haripur village in sadar upazila, Joypurhat, on Thursday morning.
The arrestee is Doctor Fazlur Rahman Syeed, district Jamaat ameer, Anwar Hossain, Jamaat secretary of sadar upazila, Taiful Islam Fita, Jamaat ameer of Kalai upazila, Taslim Uddin, Jamaat ameer of Panchbibi upazila, Sujaul Islam, Jamaat secretary of the upazila, and three others.
The Joypurhat police said they conducted a raid on a house at the village at about 9:00pm and arrested them while they were holding a clandestine meeting.