Police has detained 21 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami’s female students wing Islami Chhatri Shangstha from a house in Kodomtoli area of Dhaka. Kodomtoli Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) MA Jalil told the Dhaka Tribune that acting on a tip-off, police carried out a raid on Wednesday evening and detained them. From initial information, police believe that the women were meeting in that house to discuss anti-government activities, he said. The OC said two elderly women were brought to the police station along with the student activists. They have told the police that they came to visit the house.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 18, 2017 16:30 UTC