'Neo JMB' leader Rajib confesses to plotting
“Neo JMB” leader Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi before a Dhaka court yesterday confessed to plotting the Gulshan café attack, court sources said.
Rajib told the court that he planned the crime with some other top leaders but was not physically present in the attack, they said.
He also admitted that he recruited operatives in the militant outfit, they added.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ahsan Habib sent him to jail after recording his statements.
The July 1 café attack last year had left 22 people, including 17 foreigners and two police officials, killed.
The 32-year-old man, who gained position a top position in the “Neo JMB” from a cook of a leader of the old JMB, was arrested by the counter terrorism unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on January 14 in Tangail.
He is the only mastermind behind the attack arrested alive. Several others including Neo JMB top coordinator Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury was killed in separate police raids in Dhaka and elsewhere.
Police said Rajib supplied two operatives for the Gulshan and one for the Sholakia attacks.
Rajib and his family had stayed at a Bashundhara Residential Area house where the Gulshan café attack was planned. He used to “guide” the attackers there, police and court sources said.
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