Shawdesh Desk: Twelve top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami Chattogram city unit were arrested during a drive at a building in Sugandha Residential Area in the port city on Thursday night.

Among the arrestees, Mohammad Shahjahan is the ameer of Jamaat city unit while Nazrul Islam and Mohammad Ullah are the general secretary and organising secretary respectively.

Mizanur Rahman, additional deputy commissioner (north zone) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), confirmed this to media.
He said, a team of police from Panchlaish Police Station conducted a drive on the fourth floor of a six-storey building in Sugandha Residential Area in the city and detained 12 Jamaat leaders including Shahjahan, Nazrul and Mohammad Ullah while they were in a meeting around 11.30pm.

“They were planning to conduct subversive activities in the city during the meeting,” he said.

Police recovered seven crude bombs, a number of machetes and cleavers and some papers from the roof of the building, the police official added.

He also informed that police are taking preparation against the arrestees in this connection.