Staff Reporter :
Detective Branch (DB) of Police claimed to have detained a Shariah Board member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the city’s Jatrabari area early Saturday.
The detained man has been identified as Moulana Md Maksudur Rahman alias Abdullah, said Monirul Islam, Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Police.
In primary interrogation, Abdullah admitted that he was a member of the ABT’s Shariah Board, said Additional Police Commissioner adding that
he went to Jatrabari to attend a meeting of the militant organisation.
He became interested in the “jihad activities” when he was a student of Faridabad Madrasa in 2007 and joined the ABT in 2014, the Detective official said.
He received training on militant activities in 2015 in a hideout of Dewanbari area in the capital, Monirul Islam said.
According to him, the Shariah Board was formed with members of the top performers and every killing mission was approved by the Board.
Sacked Major Syed Ziaul Haque began planning the murders, according to information police gathered by interrogating several ABT members.
Earlier, the government banned the ABT in May 2015 after the group, linked to al-Qaeda, took responsibility for several machete attacks on secularists.
Initially known as Ansarullah, the outfit later changed its name to Ansar al-Islam, but was banned again on March 5 of this year.
Detective Branch (DB) of Police claimed to have detained a Shariah Board member of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from the city’s Jatrabari area early Saturday.
The detained man has been identified as Moulana Md Maksudur Rahman alias Abdullah, said Monirul Islam, Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Police.
In primary interrogation, Abdullah admitted that he was a member of the ABT’s Shariah Board, said Additional Police Commissioner adding that
he went to Jatrabari to attend a meeting of the militant organisation.
He became interested in the “jihad activities” when he was a student of Faridabad Madrasa in 2007 and joined the ABT in 2014, the Detective official said.
He received training on militant activities in 2015 in a hideout of Dewanbari area in the capital, Monirul Islam said.
According to him, the Shariah Board was formed with members of the top performers and every killing mission was approved by the Board.
Sacked Major Syed Ziaul Haque began planning the murders, according to information police gathered by interrogating several ABT members.
Earlier, the government banned the ABT in May 2015 after the group, linked to al-Qaeda, took responsibility for several machete attacks on secularists.
Initially known as Ansarullah, the outfit later changed its name to Ansar al-Islam, but was banned again on March 5 of this year.
