Suspected militant arrested in Dhaka

Members of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday arrested the banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam’s member Dr Jakir Hossain from the capital’s Jatrabari area, eight days after he went missing from work at the Bhanga upazila health complex in Faridpur.

Dr Jakir Hossain is the son of Md Shamsul Alam of Bangram Residential Area in Manikganj district town.

He was produced before a Faridpur court with a remand prayer while it granted a two-day remand for interrogation, Ahmedul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of the CTTC, said.

Dr Jakir joined the government’s health department as an assistant surgeon at Tujarpur Health Center under the upazila on December 11, 2019, through the 38th BCS, he said.