Dhaka, April 3 -- The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has detained a child in Habiganj for his alleged involvement with the banned militant outfit Neo-Jama'at Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo-JMB).

The detention comes after the narrative surrounding militancy in Bangladesh has seen shifts under the interim government led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

Former DMP commissioner Sazzat Ali had previously stirred discussion by dismissing the existence of militancy in the country.

He had claimed that the previous Awami League government used "militancy" as a tool to target and suppress dissent.

Despite those assertions, at least one known militancy-related arrest was made during Sazz...