Imtiaz Salim alias Imadul Amin (41), the second highest leader of the banned militant organization Hizb ut Tahrir Bangladesh, has been detained by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTCC) Intelligence Analysis Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). According to CTCC, Salim was involved in militancy when he was a student at North-South University. On Tuesday (December 12), he was arrested after raiding a house in Bashundhara residential area of the capital.
According to CTTC, the organizational alias of the arrested Imtiaz Selim is Imadul Amin. He is an officer of a multinational company in the country, has been working and leading the top level of the militant organization for a long time under the guise of this identity. He has been working as a policy maker for Hizb ut Tahrir in parallel with his professional identity. On December 8, he was arrested in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act at Ramna police station of DMP.
On Wednesday (December 13) in the press conference organized at DMP’s media center on Minto Road in the capital, Asaduzzaman, additional commissioner of DMP and head of CTTC told this information. He said that the militant organization Hizbut Tahrir, founded in 2001, was banned in Bangladesh in 2009 by the government. The organization has been conducting militant and fundamentalist activities in the country since its inception. In continuation of this, they have been conducting various propaganda campaigns for the last few years to speed up the activities of banned organizations by organizing online conferences.
t has been alleged that Imtiaz Salim has given speeches in various online conferences denying democracy and the existing laws of the country.
Citing the preliminary inquiry, CCTC chief said, Imtiaz Salim completed BBA and Masters degree in Development Studies from North South University. Currently he was working as head of sales department of a multinational company in Banani, capital.
