Joint forces members arrested a Jamaat activist in accusation of killing a local Jubo League leader from village Khetrapara under Kolaroa upazila in the district on Saturday afternoon.
The arrested Mukul Hossain is one of the suspected fugitives of the local Jubo League leader Mehedi Hassan Jaz killing case.
Shahadara Khan, officer in charge of the Kolaroa police station said Mukul was arrested on a regular drive of joint forces to Khetrapara area.
He said when the joint forces members went to Khetrapara on a drive to arrest some accused of regular cases, Jamaat and Shibir activists threw brick-bats on them.
The law enforcers retaliated by opening fire. Mukul was later detained and then handed over to the police.
Jubo League leader Jaz Miah was killed at Saraskati area under the same upazila on December 12 in a Jamaat-shibir activists’ attack.
Police recovered his dead body from nearby his residence in the area on December 13.