3 JMB suspects on four-day remand

A Dhaka court yesterday placed three alleged JMB activists, arrested from a militant den in the capital's Mirpur area over a week ago, on a four-day remand.

The court permitted the police to interrogate Abu Sayeed alias Russel alias Salman, 22, Elias alias Omar Faruk, 23, and Mohsin Ali alias Rubel, 22, in connection with a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009.

Earlier in the day, Mumin Khan, investigation officer of the case (IO) and inspector of Detective Branch of police, produced the accused before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Yunus Khan, and sought a seven-day remand for each of the trio.

In the remand prayer, the IO said the accused were active members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Law enforcers need to conduct a drive along with the three accused to arrest the JMB second-in-command for Dhaka region Sohel Rana Hiron and trainer for making bomb and grenade Mostafizar Rahman, who fled the scene, he said in the plea.

The IO also said the accused should be quizzed to glean information about their militant activities from them.

On December 24 last year, in a 15-hour crackdown, detectives seized 16 improvised grenades, other ingredients for making over 200 bombs and grenades, a suicide vest, and 15 bullets from a JMB “bomb and ammunition factory” in Mirpur. They also arrested militant suspects Sayeed, Elias and Mohsin.