Staff Correspondent

Police last night arrested seven Hizb ut-Tahrir activists in the city's Badda area and seized leaflets containing 'provocative statements over Pilkhana carnage'.

The arrestees are Abdur Rakib, 44, Sahadat Hossain, 23, Fakrul Hasan, 22, Abdullah-al-Mamun, 25, Noman Sikdar, 25, Arifuzzaman, 22, and Mir Salekin, 22.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kazi Wazed Ali of Badda Police Station told The Daily Star that after a tip-off they raided a three-storey building at West Kuril at around 9:30pm and found the Tahrir men meeting on the roof.

Several locals including teenage boys were in attendance.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir operatives were holding the meeting without prior permission they needed to do so, he added.

Besides the leaflets, a laptop, CDs and a banner were recovered during the raid.

In primary interrogations, the arrestees admitted they are members of the Islamic outfit suspected to have links to militancy.

OC Wazed said the others were not detained as they were there believing it was going to be a religious gathering.

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