Staff Reporter :
The law enforcing agencies, including the detective branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), have launched their drives across the country to arrest the listed militants and terrorists of Bangladesh and India.
A number of several joint teams of intelligence agencies have started haunting the criminals, especially in different ports and the frontiers, based on the recently exchanged list of criminals of the countries, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner of the DMP told The New Nation on Wednesday.
“Enlisting criminals’ necessary documents and possible data-based information will be sent to the authorities concerned soon, he said, adding that Bangladeshi law enforcers and the India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) believed that they would be able to arrest the mastermind criminals soon.
Monirul said that the NIA’s list of suspects given to Bangladesh includes the names of JMB’s Sunny, Boma Mizan and Faruk Hossain, who are the suspected mastermind behind the two incidents — one in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila and another at Burdwan in India. Bangladeshi law enforcers are yet to trace them.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan said that NIA has handed over a list of 11 terrorists, including several India’s Burdwan blast suspects, who it believes are hiding in Bangladesh.
He said that RAB also has given the visiting NIA delegation a list of 51 criminals, including 10 militants as part of the exchange of criminal’s lists on Tuesday, who are purportedly holed-up in India.
The elite force official said that the NIA list contained names of 11 ‘most wanted’ Indian nationals, who are hiding in Bangladesh.
They are ‘Kausar’, Yusuf Sheikh, Borhan Sheikh, Rezaul Karim, Talha Sheikh, Amjad Ali Sheikh, Abul Kalam, Shahnur Alam, Habibur Rahman Sheikh, Zahirul Sheikh and ‘Nasirullah’.
RAB’s Mahmud Khan said that their list included JMB’s present chief Sohel Mahafuj and members Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny and Jahidul Islam alias Boma Mizan, Anwarul Islam, ‘Sakhawat’ and Abu Sayed Sheikh Hossain.
Sunny and Boma Mizan are among three JMB members snatched by a large group of armed men from a prison van in a Hollywood-style hold-up in February this year on a highway at Mymensingh’s Trishal Upazila.
Bangladesh’s list also includes four absconding Huji members — Maulana Tajuddin, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar and Mufti Abdul Hai — who are accused in the Aug 21, 2005 grenade attack case.
Among others on the list, the top ones are ‘Shahadat’, ‘Mukul’, ‘Shahin’, ‘Robin’, ‘Zishan’, ‘Joy’, ‘Mamun’, Molla Masud and ‘Kalu’.
During the nearly two-and-half-hour-long meeting with the four-member NIA team led by its Director General Sharad Kumar, senior RAB officials, including its Director General Mokhlesur Rahman, were present.
The NIA has been investigating Jihadi networks between after the October 2 blast at a house in West Bengal’s Burdwan town in India.
The house, Indian investigators said, had been turned into a factory for making Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) by militants of the banned outfit, JMB.
The incident led to the unraveling of a wide terror network, the investigators said, also claiming that the militants were out to eliminate two top Bangladesh politicians — Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.
