Hefazat assistant secy gen Manzurul held

The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested Hefazat-e-Islam's assistant secretary general Mawlana Manzurul Islam Afendi.

He was nabbed from Green Road area in the capital around 11pm on Wednesday, and later shown arrested in a case filed over the violence at Shapla Chattar on May 5, 2013.

Md Asaduzzaman, deputy commissioner of DB's Motijheel division, confirmed the matter on Thursday evening.

Earlier on Wednesday evening, the Qawmi madased based oragnization's another assistant secretary general, Mufti Shakhawat Hossain Razi, were arrested.

The detectives nabbed assistant publicity secretary of the organization Mufti Sharif Ullah from Jatrabari area on Tuesday night. 

On Monday midnight, the law enforcers arrested Hefazat-e-Islam's organizing secretary Azizul Haque Islamabadi from Chattogram's Hathazari upazila.

TT/SU