In the statement given before Magistrate Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui, Sharif Sahedul and Delwar Hossain Ripon admitted their involvement with the grenade attack on the British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in 2004.

They also confessed that they were involved with the bomb attacks on Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran and former Awami League lawmaker Syeda Zebunnesa Haque.

Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Munshi Atiqur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday that the accused had admitted their complicity in four bomb attacks. He said the criminals also named two other men who were involved in the heinous acts.

The court sent them to Sylhet Central Jail.

On Sunday, following a remand prayer by the CID, a Sylhet court placed the two on a five-day remand. With this, the investigators were able to have them on remand for a total of 45 days.