'They were planning to free death row Huji leader Ujjal'

Police today claimed to have arrested six members of Banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh (Huji) in Badda of Dhaka.

A team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested them conducting a drive in Satarkul area early morning.

Arrestees are Md Billal Hosen, 25, Nur Alam, 28, Md Rafikul Islam, 29, Abul Mia, 35, Abdur Rahman, 30, and Akhtar Hosen, 34.

Of them, Billal is the leader of the group, Monirul Islam, chief of CTTC, briefed media at Maulana Bhashani Stadium of Gulistan.

Monirul was talking during the half-time of the friendly cricket match of CTTC and Crime Reporters' Association Bangladesh (CRAB).

Police also recovered a machete, three knives, two masks, one toy pistol and 100 ml of chloroform from the possessions of the arrestees.

In primary investigation, they admitted that they used to conduct robbing in order to collect fund according to the instructions of Ujjal alias Ratan, a death row convict in the August 21 attack case.

After collection of the fund, they were planning to buy weapons which they would then use to free Ujjal from Kashimpur jail and other members of their organisation.