‘Neo-JMB’ member confesses involvement

Farid Uddin Rumi, one of members of the “Neo-JMB” cell, yesterday confessed to a magistrate that he and four others were involved in carrying out attacks on police in the capital in the last five months.

He told the magistrate that they believe in Shariah-based law and that police are barriers to implementation of the law, adding that they carried out the attacks on police for the reasons.

 “I was motivated by my brother Rafiqul Islam, and a Neo-JMB leader,” said Rumi in his confessional statement before a magistrate.   

Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam recorded his confessional statement at his chamber after Moklesur Rahman, a sub-inspector of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit, and also the investigation officer of the case, produced the accused.

After recording his statement, the magistrate ordered to send Rumi to jail.

The court also placed Mishuk Khan Mizan on a two-day fresh remand in the case.

Earlier on September 23, the two were arrested from the capital’s Jatrabari and Narayanganj.

They were later shown arrested in a case over the Gulistan IED blast that left two traffic police constables and a community policeman injured on April 29.

On September 24, they were put on four-day remand.