The Dhaka Metropolitan Police at a press conference on Sunday said that 26 individuals have been arrested so far in connection with a programme organised to train activists of the Awami League in Dhaka under the Bhatara police station on July 8.
Of them, 22 individuals were arrested in the DMP area, while the other four were arrested from different districts of the country, DMP deputy commissioner for media and public relations, Mohammad Talebur Rahman, said in a press briefing on Sunday at the DMP media centre.
鈥楶eople were brought to the meeting from different places in the country. We arrested 22 people in the DMP area, while four others were arrested from different districts,鈥� he said without disclosing from where the four individuals were arrested.
Talebur, replying to a query, said that a case was filed with the Bhatara police station on July 13 regarding the AL programme.
鈥榃e are looking into whether there was any anti-state conspiracy behind the training programme,鈥� added the police official.
According to the DMP, the convention hall named KB Convention Hall was rented by a person named Shamima Nasrin Shampa on July 8 on behalf of an organisation under the guise of sending people abroad.
Earlier on August 1, the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate, in a press release, said that the Bangladesh Army had formed a court of inquiry against an army officer over allegations of his political involvement, and a preliminary investigation has found the allegations to be true.
At a press briefing at the Officers鈥� Mess at the Dhaka cantonment in the capital on July 31, the army said that it had taken Major Sadikul Islam Sadek into its custody over allegations of training Awami League activists.
