India, March 19 -- Bangladeshi security officials have arrested the top leader of a Rohingya insurgent group on charges of illegally entering, sabotaging and terrorist activities in the South Asian nation which is facing political instability since the exit of former PM Sheikh Hasina on August 5 last year.

The arrested leader was identified as Ataullah Abu Ammar Jununi.

He is the commander-in-chief of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army.

Apart from Jununi, police arrested 10 others while conducting a raid in Narayanganj and Mymensingh regions of Bangladesh.

More than 1 million Rohingyas, who fled from neighbouring Myanmar, are currently staying in Bangladesh as refugees.

Bangladeshi law enforcers had produced Jununi and six others bef...