[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch of Police arrested a listed member of banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh from a house at Rasulpur in the district town yesterday.The arrested was identified as Hasanuzzaman Hasan, 32, son of Maulana Mahfuzur Rahman of Tengra Bhabanipur village in Sadar upazila.
DB sources said Hasan went into hiding soon after the August 17 serial bomb blasts on 2005 and recently, he came to the area.
Talking to the journalists, Hasan said he was an active JMB member but later he left the outfit as his father had asked him to cut off all relations with militancy.
On contact, Satkhira Police Super SM Maniruzzaman said they would be able to gather more information on activities of JMB in the district during his interrogation.