Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested 14 members of Hizbut Tahrir Bangladesh in the city and in Gazipur yesterday.

The law- enforcers arrested 12 in Dhaka and two in fungi on charge of distributing provocative leaflets | regarding Bangladesh Army j and Bangladesh Rifles.

The arrestees were identified as Raihan, Sayeed Arefin, Syed Nasir Unddin, Zafar Sadiq, Zahidur Rahman. Manir Hossain.

Ibrahim. Khalequr Rahman, Ahmed Zisad, Hassan, Jobayer Ahmed, Shamim, Kamal Uddin Jewel and Shakil Mahmud.

Raihan, Arefin and Nasir were arrested by Dhanmondi police while Zafar by Darus-Salam police, Zahidur Rahman by Tejgaon police, Manir Hossain by Pallabi police, Ibrahim and Khalequr Rahman by Mirpur police, Zisad and Hasan by Khilgaon police, Jobayer and Shamim by Shahbagh police and Jewel and Shakil by Tongi police.