Staff Reporter :
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said the new faction of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (New-JMB) is planning to resume new sabotage activities in various establishments in the capital .
DMP’s Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman on Thursday said this after three suspected members of New JMB were arrested from Gabtoli bus stand on Wednesday night.
New JMB men have been coming to Dhaka from the country’s North region to launch anti-government activities, the DC said.
Earlier, a team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them after conducting a raid in the city’s Gabtoli. The aaccused are Md Abdullah, 24, Shafiqul Islam alias Mollazi, 38 and Mostafa Hossain Arif, 25. A case has been filed against them with the Darussalam Police Station under DMP.
According to CTTC sources, during the primary interrogation, the arrested JMG men told the CTTC team that they were all members of old JMB. Later, they got initiated into the New JMB through Sohail Mahfouz, a defendant in multiple cases, including the Gulshan Holey Artisan case.
In the interrogation, they also confessed to planning a sabotage against the government and the state.
They were communicating with members of JMB and various international terrorist organisations, using various apps and “secret texts” on their mobile phones, the sources added.
CTTC officials said that Mollazi and Arif, New JMB Shahin Alam alias Alamin, Ziaur Rahman alias Mohsin, Arif Kabir, Zahirul alias Mamunur Rashid, Harun and several others went to India for armed training at different times.
They also said they joined Indian militants in Jharkhand and Kerala, and received training in bomb-making and weapons-handling.
While Ziaur Rahman, Mamun and Al Amin were arrested by the Indian police on June 2019, the rest fled to Bangladesh.
The New JMB members returned to the country and organised their activities through the arrested Abdullah, the CTTC officials added.
Ziaur Rahman alias Mohsin is an accused of Salman alias Tarek murder case who was killed in an internal conflict of JMB in Bandarban in 2012. Zahirul is a fugitive and he was convicted in Mohammadpur College teacher Krishna Kaberi Bishwas murder case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has said the new faction of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (New-JMB) is planning to resume new sabotage activities in various establishments in the capital .
DMP’s Deputy Commissioner (media) Masudur Rahman on Thursday said this after three suspected members of New JMB were arrested from Gabtoli bus stand on Wednesday night.
New JMB men have been coming to Dhaka from the country’s North region to launch anti-government activities, the DC said.
Earlier, a team of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them after conducting a raid in the city’s Gabtoli. The aaccused are Md Abdullah, 24, Shafiqul Islam alias Mollazi, 38 and Mostafa Hossain Arif, 25. A case has been filed against them with the Darussalam Police Station under DMP.
According to CTTC sources, during the primary interrogation, the arrested JMG men told the CTTC team that they were all members of old JMB. Later, they got initiated into the New JMB through Sohail Mahfouz, a defendant in multiple cases, including the Gulshan Holey Artisan case.
In the interrogation, they also confessed to planning a sabotage against the government and the state.
They were communicating with members of JMB and various international terrorist organisations, using various apps and “secret texts” on their mobile phones, the sources added.
CTTC officials said that Mollazi and Arif, New JMB Shahin Alam alias Alamin, Ziaur Rahman alias Mohsin, Arif Kabir, Zahirul alias Mamunur Rashid, Harun and several others went to India for armed training at different times.
They also said they joined Indian militants in Jharkhand and Kerala, and received training in bomb-making and weapons-handling.
While Ziaur Rahman, Mamun and Al Amin were arrested by the Indian police on June 2019, the rest fled to Bangladesh.
The New JMB members returned to the country and organised their activities through the arrested Abdullah, the CTTC officials added.
Ziaur Rahman alias Mohsin is an accused of Salman alias Tarek murder case who was killed in an internal conflict of JMB in Bandarban in 2012. Zahirul is a fugitive and he was convicted in Mohammadpur College teacher Krishna Kaberi Bishwas murder case.
