On secret information, Rab men searched a Jamalpur-bound passenger bus at Khagdahar on Thursday night and arrested Imran Ali Manik, 25, a JMB activist, who worked as the motorbike driver of Bangla Bhai.

Books on jihad, a mobile set and a money bag were seized from his possession.

Hailing from Chandimandop village in Muktagachha upazila, Imran is accused in several cases including dacoity, police said.

Rab arrested an Indian national in front of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital at Charpara in the district town yesterday morning.

The arrestee was identified as Salah Uddin Mollah, 42, of Mundupara under Nakshi Para of Nadia district of West Bengal.

Police said that the arrested person, an accused in a cheating case, used different names -- Michael Nepal Chandra Sarker, Emran Hossain, Abdus Salam --to cheat the common people.

A Rab team also arrested Wazed Ali, 32, a drug peddler, with two kg of hemp from Kanchijuli Bazar in the district town yesterday.

The three arrested were handed over to Kotwali police.