Woman arrested from Ashulia ‘Neo-JMB den’

Law enforcers today arrested a woman after conducting drive at a suspected den of the militant outfit “Neo-JMB” in Ashulia area of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka.

Based on intelligence, police conducted the drive at a two-storey building in Gokulnagar area this evening, Abul Bashar, officer-in-charge of Detective Branch of Police in Dhaka district (north), told The Daily Star.

During the raid, the lawmen arrested the woman and recovered bomb-making materials, local weapons and IT equipment from the ground floor of the building, Maruf Hossain Sarder, superintendent of police in Dhaka, told journalists on the spot.

The woman is the wife of a student of Jahangirnagar University, who is an IT expert of the militant outfit, the police official said, adding that they used to live in a room which was used as the IT branch of “Neo-JMB”.