Police arrested 22 women activists of Jamaat’s student wing Islami Chhatri Sangstha at Poikkha-Hosnabad village in Barisal’s Muladi upazila yesterday.
Police said the women were allegedly meeting for militancy training at a local Jamaat leader’s house.
The women arrested however deny being involved in any illegal activities, and said they were a group of friends who had gathered for an Eid reunion.
Shah Alam Hawladar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Muladi police station, said police raided the house of Jamaat-i-Islami’s Gachhuya union unit secretary in the afternoon on a tip-off, where they detained 22 women activists. Ataur Rahman and his family fled the scene.
Law enforcers seized a diary, a register, two CDs on Jamaat’s activities and 36 books, including several titles written by Ghulam Azam, Motiur Rahman Nizami, and Delwar Hossain Sayedee, which were in the women’s possession.
Among those arrested one young woman is a student of Barisal BM College, and the others are school and college students from Gachhuya union, said Md Qamaruzzaman assistant police superintendent of Gournadi.
