Sylhet: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested another student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Dhaka on Wednesday for his suspected link to militancy.

The arrestee is Jewel Ahmad, member of banned Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tahrir and a resident of Bianibazar upazila.

Major Fakhrul Islam Khan, deputy director of RAB-9, confirmed that Jewel is a student of the university.

The major said the elite force conducted a drive in different places of Sylhet  from Wednesday morning to night and arrested Jewel for his suspected involvement in militant activities as part of the government’s anti-terrorism campaign.

The law enforcers earlier arrested Iffat Ahmed Chowdhury, a fourth year student of Industrial and Production Engineering Department (IPE) of the university and son of Khaled Chowdhury of Nijkura village of Osmaninagar upazila of the district on 2 August  and Abdul Aziz, a 4^th year student of the same department on 18 July  suspecting their involvement in militancy.