Police in a drive on Friday night arrested ten prominent leaders and activists of Jamaat e Islami in Barisal.The arrestees were named as Jahiruddin Md. Babar, city Jamaat secretary, Prof. Shah Alam, daily Sangram Barisal Bureau chief and in
charge of media wing, Akram Hossain, Abdul Jabbar, Abul Bashar, Abdul Wahab, Waliullah, Abdul Mannan, Ahmed Ali and Abdus Sattar, leaders and prominent activists of Barisal JI.
Shakhawat Hossain, Barisal Kotwali police station in charge said the JI leaders and activists were arrested from Farid Manjil, resident of a JI activist, while engaged in secret meeting for planning to do sabotage on ahead of announced shutdown of the opposition alliance on Sunday.
The arrestees would be produced before the court on Saturday, he added. Mentionably police arrested Barisal city Amir, central executive
committee member of Jamaat E Islami, member secretary of 18-party alliance Barisal and a leading lawyer of Barisal district bar Advocate
Moazzem Hossain Helal on April 25, 2013 and indicted him in a dozen of cases. Advocate Mojibor Rahman Sarwar, convener of 18-party alliance,
lawmaker, and city BNP president, condemning the arrest of Jamaat leaders and demanding their immediate release alleged that police acting as ruling party cadres by arresting alliance leaders and activists on ahead of Barisal City Corporation election.
(Our Correspondent)
