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Panthapath hotel attack: Police press charges against 14 militants | |
2019-12-10 | |
[Dhaka Tribune] Police have pressed charges against 14 members of a new faction of banned Death Eater outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB)
Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court General Recording Officer Sub-Inspector (SI) Shafayatul Islam said: "The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Unit Inspector Raju Ahmed, also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet before the court on Monday." The case has already been sent to Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal for hearing, he added. On August 15, 2017, a member of New JMB, Saiful Islam, 21, went kaboom!at Hotel Olio International on Panthapath, only about 300m away from the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum. The incident took place just three hours after President Md Abdul Hamid, Prime Minister ...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums... , and other high-ups of the government paid their respects to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the museum in Dhanmondi on National Mourning Day. Among the 14 Death Eater accused in the charge sheet, 10 of them have already delivered confessional statements in court. Militant Saiful Islam has not been named among the accused as he died when he detonated the bomb. Related: Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh: 2019-11-07 Extremist outfit Allahr Dal banned in Bangladesh Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh: 2018-03-23 Two suspectedNew JMB militants held in Bogra Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh: 2017-11-01 Biman Bangladesh pilot held over aircraft sabotage plot Related: Panthapath: 2018-04-06 Foiled August 15 attack: Main financier arrested Panthapath: 2017-08-16 Who was Saiful Islam? Panthapath: 2017-08-16 Explosion, gunfire kills militant in Panthapath hotel | |
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