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| 22 held in Barisal on suspicion |
| 2009-04-24 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 22 people, including 21 female, in Barisal yesterday. Some religious books were seized from their possession. Rab officials at a press briefing said they were arrested on suspicion of criminal activities. Rab handed them over to Kotwali Police Station after daylong interrogation. An 18-member team of Rab-8 led by Lt Commander KM Mamunur Rashid in the morning arrested Jalil and two women at a house near Rab's Rupatoli office. Later, the team rounded up another 19 while holding a meeting at a house at New Circular Road. The arrestees claimed that they are Tabligh Jamaat members and came to attend Tabligh and Talim from different areas of the region and other districts. Safura Khatun, 71, a resident of New Circular Road of the city, told The Daily Star that Rab detained them from the house of Rashu Begum. Rashu resides in Dhaka and Tabligh Jamaat is using her house for last 10 years, Safura said. Hayatul Islam Khan, assistant commissioner of Barisal Metropolitan Police, told The Daily Star that the arrestees would be produced before judicial magistrate court under section 54 of CrPC for their suspicious movements. |
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