Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka Court on Monday placed the two women, who surrendered to police during the Saturday’s raid, on a seven-day remand each in connection with a case filed over the militant hideout in the city’s Ashkona.
They are Trisha Moni, wife of the militant outfit “Neo JMB” leader Maynul Musa, and Jebunnahar Shila, widow of Major (sacked) Jahid alias Murad.
Metropolitan Magistrate Meher Nigar Suchona passed the order when Inspector Saidur Rahman of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police produced them before the court with a 10-day remand prayer for each.
In the remand prayer, Saidur, also the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, claimed that the two women were active members of “Neo JMB” and they were involved in creating subversive activities.
They are needed to be remanded to find out other fugitives responsible for making an attempt to commit such offences, the IO said.
No lawyers for the two female militants were present at the court.
Trisha with her four month-old daughter and Jebunnahar with one and a half years old daughter surrendered during the anti-militant operation code-named “Ripple 24”. They also deposited a 9mm pistol and six bullets during the surrender.
Earlier, Shahinur Islam, Sub-Inspector of the CTTC unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, filed the case with Dakkhin Khan Police Station on Sunday night under the Anti-Terrorism Act, said Tapan Chandra Saha, Officer-in-Charge of the police station.
Meanwhile, Afif Kaderi alias Ador, the 14-year-old boy who died in a police raid at a militant hideout in the city’s Ashkona, suffered multiple bullet wounds, according to autopsy report.
“There were multiple bullet wounds in his body. One bullet has been taken out,” Sohel Mahmud, Assistant Professor of Forensic Medicine Department at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), told The New Nation on Monday.
He said that they could not find splinters injuries or any other wounds caused by explosion on the body. “We have collected samples for DNA test and viscera,” he said.
Police removed his body on Sunday and sent it to the DMCH amid initial reports that he may have exploded a suicide vest.
Earlier, Police fired shots and gas grenades as Afif did not surrender. Officials said Afif might have been killed in police firing around 2:30pm on Saturday.
Afif Kaderi, whose father Tanvir, a Neo-JMB leader, committed suicide during the September 10 raid on a militant hideout in Azimpur. He refused to surrender during the raid.
Besides, police on Monday said to have enough evidences that the ground floor flat in Ashkona of the city was used as a hideout and sometimes an office of the militants.
“We have found adequate evidences that the place was used as militant hideout and sometimes they used it as their office. The Crime Scene Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) handed over the evidence to the Investigation Officer (IO) of the case,” said Abdus Salam, Assistant Superintendent of Police of CID’s Crime Scene unit.
The CID team collected evidence from the ground floor of the three-storey building where two militants were killed during the raid, he added.
