Staff Reporter :
A Dhaka court has granted three days of remand to the four arrested members of banned Islami militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yunus Khan passed the order on Monday afternoon, rejecting the bail petition filed by the lawyer of the JMB men.
They are: Pakistan national Md Idris Sheikh, Mokbul Sharif, Md Salam and Mostofa Zaman.
Earlier on the day, the JMB activists were arrested by the detectives from the city’s Khilgaon area.
The detectives also seized 26 militant books, three passports, five mobile phone handsets, 4,000 Pakistani rupees, 1,500 Indian rupees, 1,300 Bahrain dollars and 1,600 Jordanian dollars.
Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), said this in a press briefing at the DMP headquarters on Monday. “Their target was to carry out subversive activities and stir up instability in the country, the police official said.
Idris is a Pakistani passport holder and three others have had regular access to Pakistan, the DB official said.
“Their main source of funds came from smuggling Pakistan-made false Indian currency to Bangladesh and India,” he said.
Idris has contacts with a foreign detective agency official and a female officer of a high commission. Only Idris visited Pakistan 48 times.
He went to Pakistan via India in 1985 and married a Pakistani woman in 1990. He also participated in 2002 Pakistan national election under the banner of Pakistan Muslim Alliance. Idris returned to Bangladesh in 2007 and joined the militant outfit JMB.
Mukul Sharif is involved in human trafficking while Md Salam is a Bihari and cultivation-related trader in profession. Mostafa Zaman had worked as traffic inspector at Pakistan International Airlines.
