Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in an overnight drive arrested 10 leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from Sutrapur area in the capital early Saturday.
The arrestees were Mohammad Abdul Hamid alias Jibon, 22, president of Sutrapur Thana unit Shibir and son of Mohammad Abu Yusuf of Kartam village in Chouddagram upazila of Comilla, Mohammad Shafiul Alam, ex-president of Sutrapur thana unit, Mohammad Zobair Hossain, president of Jagonnath University unit Shibir, Asaduzzaman alias Mamun, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Mohammad Russel, Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Arman Ali, Abdul Hye Selim and Kazi Imtiaz Uddin.
Sources at the RAB headquarters said, a team of RAB-10, acting on a tip-off, conducted the drive in the area after midnight and arrested the Shibir leaders and activists from a wedding ceremony. RAB members also recovered huge leaflets, posters and books from their possession.
Meanwhile, about 150 activists of Jamaat and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir brought out a procession in Shahjadpur area under Badda thana around 8:30am, but they got dispersed amid police action. The law enforcers also picked up two activists from the scene.