Staff Reporter :
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives picked up five suspected members, including trainer and financier, of a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (neo-JMB) from the city’s
Uttara and Adabor areas on Wednesday night. The arrested men were identified as Abdul Hakim Faridi, 40, Rajibul Islam, 29, Gazi Kamrus Salam Sohan, 27, Md Sohel Rana, 23, and Sheikh Abu Saleh, 42, who are all the followers of Sarwar-Tamim group, RAB official said.
The elite force Legal and Media Wing Chief Mufti Mahmud Khan said this in a press briefing at RAB Media Center on Thursday, “A team of RAB-2 conducted a drive following information at Airport Railway Station around 10:30pm and arrested Hakim and Rajibul. As per their information, another team of the elite force picked up Sohan, Rana, and Saleh from Mohammadia Café at Adabor.”
They belong to JMB’s Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and Sarwar Jahan faction, the RAB official said.
Sohan, an electrical and electronics engineer from a reputed private university, is said to be an explosive expert. He was said to have had trained militants in explosive making.
Faridi is said to be a former top-level leader of the Ansarullah Bangla Team. His role was said to have been moral instructor, who preached and strengthened the moral fibre of the militants.
Abu Saleh is said to be the physical trainer of the militants – an expert in karate.
They planned to attack some police stations come by turns, the RAB spokesman said.
“Sohel joined in JMB in 2015 and he was assigned to attack police station. He gathered information about arms and staff in a police station. All meetings were arranged by Sohel who maintained the security issues,” the RAB official said.
But Mufti Mahmud did not disclose the names of the top targeted police stations for the shake of the security.
RAB earlier claimed that Sarwar alias Abdur Rahman alias Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif and Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim belonged to New JMB.
Sarwar sustained injuries after jumping off a five-storey building in Ashulia where RAB conducted a raid to arrest him on October 8. He died at a Savar hospital the same day while undergoing treatment.
Tamim was killed in a drive at a militants’ den in Paikpara area of Narayanganj town on August 27.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives picked up five suspected members, including trainer and financier, of a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (neo-JMB) from the city’s
Uttara and Adabor areas on Wednesday night. The arrested men were identified as Abdul Hakim Faridi, 40, Rajibul Islam, 29, Gazi Kamrus Salam Sohan, 27, Md Sohel Rana, 23, and Sheikh Abu Saleh, 42, who are all the followers of Sarwar-Tamim group, RAB official said.
The elite force Legal and Media Wing Chief Mufti Mahmud Khan said this in a press briefing at RAB Media Center on Thursday, “A team of RAB-2 conducted a drive following information at Airport Railway Station around 10:30pm and arrested Hakim and Rajibul. As per their information, another team of the elite force picked up Sohan, Rana, and Saleh from Mohammadia Café at Adabor.”
They belong to JMB’s Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and Sarwar Jahan faction, the RAB official said.
Sohan, an electrical and electronics engineer from a reputed private university, is said to be an explosive expert. He was said to have had trained militants in explosive making.
Faridi is said to be a former top-level leader of the Ansarullah Bangla Team. His role was said to have been moral instructor, who preached and strengthened the moral fibre of the militants.
Abu Saleh is said to be the physical trainer of the militants – an expert in karate.
They planned to attack some police stations come by turns, the RAB spokesman said.
“Sohel joined in JMB in 2015 and he was assigned to attack police station. He gathered information about arms and staff in a police station. All meetings were arranged by Sohel who maintained the security issues,” the RAB official said.
But Mufti Mahmud did not disclose the names of the top targeted police stations for the shake of the security.
RAB earlier claimed that Sarwar alias Abdur Rahman alias Abu Ibrahim al-Hanif and Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim belonged to New JMB.
Sarwar sustained injuries after jumping off a five-storey building in Ashulia where RAB conducted a raid to arrest him on October 8. He died at a Savar hospital the same day while undergoing treatment.
Tamim was killed in a drive at a militants’ den in Paikpara area of Narayanganj town on August 27.
