[Bangla Daily Star] Detained Lashkar-e-Taiba leader Indian national Emadullah alias Mahbub alias Mamun had been overseeing trespassing of militants into Bangladesh and shipment of explosives. Emadullah who was arrested from the capital on Wednesday night uses at least nine pseudonyms to escape law enforcers' dragnet, Detective Branch (DB) of police at a press conference at its office yesterday said.
A case has been filed against him under the passport act. He will be produced before the court today seeking a 10-day remand.
DB police said Emadullah became the Bangladesh chapter chief of Pakistan-based militant organisations Lashkar-e-Taiba and Harkatul Zihadia Islamia Azadia and Indian militant outfit Asif Reza Commando Force after the arrest of top two Taiba leaders and Indian nationals--Mufti Obaidullah alias Zafar and Maulana Monsur alias Habibullah in July from the capital.
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Monirul said, "We think the detained three militants were planning to carry out massive subversive activities either in India or Bangladesh." They had a close link with Mufti Hannan-led Harkatul Jihad Al Islami, he added.
A nephew of Monsur, Emadullah is a resident of Padmapukur village under Bagda Police Station of Uttar Chobbish Pargana district of West Bengal in India. Talking to reporters at the DB office, Emadullah said he first entered Bangladesh in April 2005 and after staying here for 22 days he went to Pakistan where he took a month-long training on AK-47 rifle, machine gun, rocket launcher, sniper gun and explosives, including hand grenade.
Pakistan national and Taiba leader Khurram Khyyum alias Abdullah had arranged a passport for him and the training in Pakistan. In his passport, he was named as Ripon Mian, a permanent resident of Pabna district.
Emadullah said when he reached the Zia International Airport from Pakistan, Abdullah took away his passport. He also said after he alighted from a PIA flight at Karachi airport, one Mehabub received him and took straight to a rest house. From there he along with four other Indian militants was taken to the training camp at hilly Beluchistan.
After the training Emadullah returned to India through Bangladesh and started working for his organisation. Law enforcers of India arrested him as militant Mehabub who was earlier arrested along with some explosives had told them that Emadullah was arranging his flight to Bangladesh. He later escaped from police custody and again entered Bangladesh in 2006. After staying several months in Jessore, he came to Tongi of Gazipur and took a job at Dhaka Tobacco Industries.
Emadullah said he used to get Tk 4,000 to Tk 5,000 from Abdullah who was sending the money from Pakistan through Western Union Money Transfer for meeting his personal expenditures. He also said Abdullah has stopped sending the money recently.