A suspected stalwart of the Kuki-Chin National Front was sent to the jail on Wednesday as a joint drive against the armed national minority group continued.
Bandarban additional superintendent of police Abdul Karim said that KNF adviser Lal Liyan Siyam Bawm was arrested at Thanchi in Bandarban hill district in the joint drive on Tuesday and a Bandarban court sent him to jail on Wednesday, when he was produced before the court.
He said that with Lal Liyan Siyam Bawm, 55 people were sent to jail following their arrest in connection with attacks on banks and police installations at Ruma and Thanchi in Bandarban that saw cash and arms looted in April 2–4.
The police officer said that the joint drive would continue even on the Eid day.
Earlier between Sunday evening and Monday, the joint operation carried out by the Bangladesh Army and other law enforcement agencies arrested 49 suspected KNF members and supporters — 31 male and 18 female — and the police arrested five, including a driver who reportedly drove KNF armed people at Thanchi on April 3.
The Inter-Services Public Relations directorate on April 8 that they seized seven guns, 20 bullets, a laptop, a set of uniforms, and a pair of boots at Bethelpara of Ruma in the hill district.