Staff Reporter :Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested four persons including an intern of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) and three students of Manarat International University (MIU) from the city and Tongi in suspected connection with the female wing of banned Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).One of them identified as Ispisna Afroz Oishee, intern at DMCH. Her father Dr Biswas Akter Hossain, 58 and mother Dr Nasima Sultana, 48, are working as senior doctors at DMCH.The three others Khadija Parvin Meghna, Israt Jahan Mou, and Aklima Rahman Moni, are fourth year students of the Department of Pharmacy at Manarat International University.RAB-4 Company Commander Lutfor Kabir daid this in a press briefing its Headquarters in the city’s Paikpara on Tuesday. “A team of RAB-4 at first arrested Moni from Sighnbord area in Tongi of Gazipur district early Monday following information extracted from JMB south unit Ameer Mahmudul Hasan who had been arrested on July 21,” the RAB official said. According to Moni’s confession, the elite force members picked up Oishee from her residence in the city’s Moghbazar area on Monday night, he said.Later, another team of the unit detained Mou and Meghna from a house of Janata Housing in Mirpur -1 at the same night, the elite force official said. The RAB commander said, one year ago, Hasan directed Moni to form the female unit and one of her friends, who is staying abroad, influenced her to joint the militant organisation.RAB suspected that the formation of the unit is in the initial stage and they had been analysing its shape, he said.He opined that Mou damaged the memory card of her cell phone soon after sensing the presence of RAB as the device could be a source of information.A large number of jihadi books, notes, documentaries and, audio and video files linked to Jamaat-Shibir were discovered from their possession. “Aklima ran initiatives at different areas in the name of Arabic studies,” he said.The elite force official said that they found ‘substantial information of militant activities’ from Aklima’s mobile phone.Aklima reportedly told RAB that out of the Tk 12,000 collected in June, Tk 8,000 was given to her by Manarat University student Oishi, who has been involved with the JMB for the last three years.In July, law enforcers arrested seven female JMB activists from Sirajganj and Tangail with arms, explosives and jihadi literatures.The legal action against them was under processing while the report filed at Tuesday night.
