STAR REPORT

Police have arrested a dismissed member of the army from Barlekha upazila of Moulvibazar in connection with a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act in Dhaka.

The arrestee, Rahed Hossain Mahed, 23, of Bishwanath upazila in Sylhet, was among two individuals named in a recent Police Headquarters alert over possible attacks on key installations.

Barlekha Police Station Officer-in-Charge Moniruzzaman Khan told our Moulvibazar correspondent that Mahed had been in hiding since the issuance of the alert and was allegedly attempting to cross into India through the border area.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested Rahed in the Islamnagar area under Shahbazpur Union in a late-night operation around 1:50am early yesterday, DMP said in a press release.

According to the statement, Mahed was allegedly influenced by the ideology of the banned militant outfit “Dawlatul Islam Neo JMB”.

Police said the Police

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