Police arrested six “members of banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji)”, including its “Kushtia regional commander”, in the capital's Kotwali area on Tuesday evening.

Detectives have claimed arrest of six militants of banned Islamist outfit Huji, including its Kushtia region leader, from Dhaka. Cops say they had plots to attack on various cultural programmes in Dhaka.

The High Court yesterday upheld death penalty of three Huji members, including its chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, and life imprisonment of two others over the 2004 grenade attack on the then UK envoy in Bangladesh.