Police in a drive arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami along with 4,500 pieces of jihadi books from Goalpara area of the district town on Wednesday.
The arrestee is Mainul Hoque, 60, publicity secretary of Thakurgaon district unit Jamaat.
Being tipped-off, a team of police raided the house of Mainul in the afternoon and they arrested him along with the books of which name is “Jamaat-e-Islami k Nischinno Korar Awami Sharojantro” (Collusion of Awami League to root out the Jamaat-e-Islami), said Sadar police station OC AKM Mehedi Hasan.
Earlier, the books had been brought to the district by a BRTC bus on courier from Hili of Dinajpur.