Suspected militant arrested in Jhenaidah raid

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a young man in Jhenaidah after conducting a five-hour raid in a house suspected to be a hideout for militants.

The arrestee Akhtaruzzaman Sagar, 25, is son of Sharafat Mondol and hails from Kaluhati village in Ganna Union. He has been involved in the activities of the new fraction of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh or JMB, claimed the RAB officials.

Being informed of the possible existence of the militants, the RAB members raided a house owned by Sharafat in Kaluhati village at around 4am on Wednesday, RAB-6 chief Wing Commander Hasan Emon Al Rajib told bdnews24.com.

But the RAB members detained Sagar without any gunfight and took him away with them at around 9am.

“We have information about Sagar’s links to the new fraction of JMB. We recovered a toy-gun and some ‘jihadi’ booklets in the house. We’ll interrogate him,” said Rajib.

Sagar has been suffering from mental illness for long, his father told reporters. He had returned home recently after receiving treatment in the Pabna Mental Hospital.

Sagar, who studied in Kaluhati madrasa, went missing from home several times, said his family.