Rashed admits ties with them

Aslam Hossain Rashed alias Rash, a key “Neo JMB” militant who was an “arms trainer” of the Gulshan café attackers, yesterday confessed before a magistrate that he had close links with the militants killed during the Kalyanpur raid of law enforcers.

Rashed, a close aide to Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the chief coordinator of the “Neo JMB”, had regular correspondence with the militants and was aware of their whereabouts, court sources said.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmudul Hassan recorded Rashed's confessional statement and sent him to jail after Jahangir Alam, an inspector of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) and the investigation officer of the case, produced him at the chamber.

Earlier on August 16, Rashed was shown arrested in the case filed over the Kalyanpur raid and placed on a five-day remand for quizzing. 

On July 26 last year, a total of nine suspected militants were killed as law enforcers in an operation code-named “Storm 26” raided a 6-storey building, locally known as “Jahaz Bari” in Kalyanpur area around 5:45am.

Rashed, 20, was arrested in Natore on July 28.

CTTC has so far arrested six other accused in connection with the case filed over the Kalyanpur raid.