Law enforcers yesterday arrested at least four alleged Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants from Jhenidah, Kurigram and Rajshahi and recovered some bomb-making materials. Law enforcers yesterday arrested at least four alleged Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants from Jhenidah, Kurigram and Rajshahi and recovered some bomb-making materials. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested two alleged activists of JMB raiding Ullapara of Kaliganj upazila early Saturday, our Jhenidah correspondent reports. The arrestees are: Abu Hasan, 48, an Iman of Ullapara mosque, Jakir Hossain, 25, of Kannyadah of Harinakunda upazila.
Major Hafiz of Rab-6 said acting on a tip-off they raided the house of Abu Hasan in Ullapara around 2:00am yesterday and arrested him and Jakir Hossain. They also recovered bomb-making materials including phosphorus powder, iron shrapnel and other materials including booklets on Jihad written by the now executed JMB leader Khalid Saifullah.
Meanwhile, Abu Hasan allegedly told law enforcers that Jakir came to his house as a labour and the seized materials belong to Jakir. He said he was not aware of the materials being there. Jakir claimed that he is a student of a madrasa and he is not a labour. He said a youth left the materials at the house. Kurigram police around yesterday noon arrested an alleged JMB militant Ujjal, 17, son of Khalilur Rahman of Natan Para of Raumari Bazar, a correspondent from Kurigram reports.
Meanwhile, the 13 JMB militants, who were arrested from different places of Kurigram on Saturday, were placed on a four-day remand yesterday. Police sources said they are interrogating them.
Police yesterday arrested a suspected JMB militant from Bagmara upazila in Rajshahi, our staff correspondent in Rajshahi reports. The arrestee was identified as Abdul Jalil, 36, son of Jamsed Ali of the village Hamirkutsa. He is accused in several criminal cases including murder, torture, extortion and cases filed in connection with assault on policemen, police sources claimed.