Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday confirmed that the detained Bangladeshis working in Singapore had no connection with militant group Al-Qaeda or Islamic States.
DMP spokesperson Monirul Islam said the detained 14 workers were being radicalised by some local preachers but they does not have any involvements with banned militant outfit Al-Qaeda or Islamic States.
Singapore authorities arrested 27 Bangladeshis between November 16 and December 1 last year for their suspected involvement with Al-Qaeda and IS while 26 of them were deported to Bangladesh, except one on Wednesday evening.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner Maruf Hossain Sorder told New Age on Wednesday evening that on their arrival in Dhaka they were arrested by DMP and 14 of them are now in jail in cases filed under the Anti Terrorism Act.
And the rest 12 were released on undertakings but they were now under close surveillance, Maruf said.
Singapore home ministry said in a press release on Wednesday that ‘These Bangladeshi nationals also bore grievances against the Bangladeshi government over its actions against some Bangladeshi Islamic groups and leaders’, it said.
‘The members were encouraged to return to Bangladesh and wage armed jihad against the Bangladeshi government.
Source: New Age
