BigstockActing on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid at Jatrabari fruit market area and arrested himRapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested one suspected member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). ASP Abu Jafor Mohammad Rahmatullah of RAB-3 said they arrested Monir Hossain from Jatrabari area in Dhaka on Wednesday night, and recovered six extremist books from his possession. Acting on a tip-off, a team conducted a raid at Jatrabari fruit market area and arrested him. In primary interrogation, he admitted his association with Sarwar-Tamim Group of JMB, Rahmatullah said on Thursday. Rahmatullah said that Monir avowed to become a militant of JMB before Imam Mehdi, the commander of Brigade Ad-dar-e Kutni of New-JMB Sarwar-Tamim group, who was arrested on September, 2017.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 06, 2020 15:11 UTC