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| New JMB’s Selim in jail all along as ‘Dakat Khokon’ |
| 2017-04-19 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] New JMB recruiter Mahbubur Rahman Selim, who has been wanted by police for over a year, is already in Chittagong Central Jail under the alias Mahbubur Rahman Khokon. Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) chief Deputy Inspector General Banaz Kumar Majumder told the Dhaka Tribune: "We have succeeded in locating Selim, who is in Chittagong Central Jail under the name Khokon. PBI’s Chittagong unit will plea before the court to take Selim in fresh remand, so that more information about New JMB’s finances and organizational structure may be collected." Selim is the main associate of mid-level New JMB leader and bomb expert Lokman Ali alias Sohel Rana, who went kaboom!along with his wife and five kids at Nasirpur in Moulvibazar during Operation Hit Back on March 30. According to the Police Bureau of Investigation, Selim was enjugged Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on October 5, 2015, in a case for his part in a robbery and murder at the Shah Corporation in Chittagong. The crimes in question took place on September 24 the same year. However, those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things... law enforcement agencies have been scouring the country for the notorious myrmidon, who is suspected to be the recruiter for New JMB’s suicide squad. While Selim was primarily in charge of recruitment for the myrmidon outfit’s suicide brigade, Sohel Rana trained the recruits in a clay house situated in the remote hills of Baishari’s Lombabil Khorolia Mora area of Bandarban, said police sources. They added that turbans arrested or killed at the recent raids in Ashkona, Sitakunda, Sylhet, Comilla and Moulvibazar were all recruited by Selim and trained by Sohel. Selim hails from Ichhanagar of the Karnaphuli area in Chittagong. Under order of New JMB Chittagong Coordinator Sohel, he purchased the clay-made house at Baishari for Tk1.60 lakh in 2012. During the September 2015 robbery, Shah Corporation Manager Satya Gopal Bhowmik was killed along with two of the robbers ‐ Rafiq and Rabiul. Two other robbers, New JMB Chittagong Divisional Commander Raisul Islam Khan alias Fardin and his associate Piyas, were maimed while fleeing the scene as they detonated explosives to cover their retreat. |
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