Ishwardi police arrested four women from Lokkhikunda area suspecting them to be radical Islamists. Samiul Islam, OC of Ishwardi Police Station said that they were selling Jihadist books. The four — Joly Khatun, 24, and Rahima Khatun, 25, from Lokkhikunda village and Suborna Khatun, 25, from Bakhtiarpur and Ruma Khatun, 23 — were arrested on Sunday afternoon. Police said that all of them are housewives and members of the Islamist outfit Hizb-ut-Tawhid.
Samiul said that the police have also recovered some books on Jihad from them. He also said that the four had admitted of being members of Hizb-ut-Tawhid.
Although Hizb-ut-Tawhid is yet to be banned by the government, the organisation is being closely observed by law enforcers.