Some 1500 people have already been listed from Bagmara, Mohanpur, Durgapur and Puthia of Rajshahi and Atrai, Raninagar and Manda of Naogaon districts, said sources in the police.

The anti-crime task force and law enforcement agencies have started gathering information on militants, outlaws, political cadres, corrupt government servants and smugglers at the roots level, sources said adding that a crackdown against these listed people would start soon.

The list is being prepared in three phases. In the first phase, names of PBCP cadres and JMB militants have been included.

Secondly, names of those who have been engaged in criminal activities under shelter of political leaders and in the third phase, names of professional

criminals, smugglers and convicted fugitives will be included.

During the last three months, police and joint forces arrested 281 JMB militants and 194 outlaws from different places of the seven upazilas.

After execution of six JMB men including the militant organisation's kingpins, many JMB cadres of the region went underground, but their activities have not fully stopped, said the sources adding that PBCP outlaws are also being reorganised.