Rampura police yesterday said they had received information about a Jamaat plan for conducting subversive activities on January 5.
Police received the information after arresting five Jamaat-e-Islami leaders in the afternoon with Tk1.47 crore and radical books from the city’s Banasree area. They are Jamaat Rokon and Principal Accountant Gias Uddin, 55, and supporters Aminur Rahman, 57, Abul Hashem, 32, Osman Gani, 40, and Shahidur Rahman, 40.
A team of Rampura police led by OC Rafiqul Islam arrested the five from a building in Banasree residential area with the money from their possessions, said Nur Alam, assistant commissioner of Khilgaon zone.
After primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they were planning to carry out attacks on January 5 and that the money was meant to be spent for that purpose.
They would be produced before a Dhaka court with a remand plea today, the OC said.
