Top Jamaat leader held in Chattogram

Police in a drive arrested former ward councilor Shamsuzzaman Helali, a Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader, in a sabotage case from Bahaddarhat area of the district on Friday night, reports BSS.

Helali was the Amir of city’s Panchliash thana unit of Metropolitan Jamaat-e-Islami and son of Abdus Sattar of city’s Arkan Housing Society.

“He was arrested in a police raid from the area at around 11:00pm,” sub-inspector of Panchliash thana Aftab Hossain said, adding that three warrants were pending against him on sabotage cases with different police stations in the city.

He was produced before the court on Saturday, he added.