Joynal Abedin Khan :
A good number of detained militant leaders and activists are giving instructions to their cohorts for further course of action.
They use their cell phones and latest technique in this regard, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner and spokesman of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told the New Nation on Tuesday.
“The militants also sent the instructions through their relatives and counsels who formally met them at jail gates,” the DMP spokesman claimed.
He said that the militants launched their massive attacks on individually and different establisblishments in the past to advertise their existence throughout the country and in order to inspire people to join them.
He also said that the detained militants use cell phones on payment of a large amount of money to the jail guards and concerned officers.
“The subversive activities are now in control of law enforcing agencies. But it is impossible to remove from the country totally due to global influence of militancy activities,” the Joint Commissioner argued.
He said that police seized 1,200 Kg explosive materials from Dhaka and
Chittagong on July 5 which would have been used for making bombs to attack on establishments.
But, Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin rejected the allegation of using mobile phone in jails and said that they might have used mobile phone on the way to courts from jails and vice-versa.
“We recovered a large number of mobile phone sets from the accused in last few months. We have already taken a decision to buy sufficient number of luggage scanners and personal scanners to stop the entrance of mobile phone in the jails,” the IG said.
He also claimed that militants have no chance to take mobile phone from the relatives and counsels during the meeting at jail gate with the presence of the detectives.
“Militant leaders are generally produced in court two to three days a week. They got enough time to use mobile phone sets at that time. Even a militants leader was produced in courts in 59 times in last six months,” he mentioned.
We have taken proper step against a militant for exchanging information under his file by identifying the irregularities with the help of close circuit (CC) camera.
On the other hand, an alleged letter from a death row Huji leader in Kashimpur jail shows that militants are changing tactics, using code languages and changing names to devise plan and carry out subversive activities and avoid arrest, sources said.
The letter from Maulana Moin Uddin alias Abu Jandal to Huji men advised them to use the word “Book Purchase” instead of “ambush” while planning attacks like last year’s ambush on a prison van in Mymensingh to free fellow militants, they said.
A photocopy of the letter, seized by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 4 from one of the 12 arrested Huji men. The elite force captured them from different areas in the capital.
According to RAB officials, Abu Jandal wrote the letter to Maulana Mainul Islam Mahim, who is allegedly organising inactive Huji operatives across the county and trying to coordinate with al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS).
Under the law, prison inmates cannot use mobile phones.
If the letter is authentic and Abu Jandal’s claim of using a mobile phone in prison is true, then it also exposes a serious security lapse in Kashimpur prison.
When contacted, Iftekhar Uddin said he did not know if any inmate was using phones there. “I will look into it.”
At least 55 militants are now on death row. But they cannot be executed as they are under trial in other cases.
A good number of detained militant leaders and activists are giving instructions to their cohorts for further course of action.
They use their cell phones and latest technique in this regard, Monirul Islam, Joint Commissioner and spokesman of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) told the New Nation on Tuesday.
“The militants also sent the instructions through their relatives and counsels who formally met them at jail gates,” the DMP spokesman claimed.
He said that the militants launched their massive attacks on individually and different establisblishments in the past to advertise their existence throughout the country and in order to inspire people to join them.
He also said that the detained militants use cell phones on payment of a large amount of money to the jail guards and concerned officers.
“The subversive activities are now in control of law enforcing agencies. But it is impossible to remove from the country totally due to global influence of militancy activities,” the Joint Commissioner argued.
He said that police seized 1,200 Kg explosive materials from Dhaka and
Chittagong on July 5 which would have been used for making bombs to attack on establishments.
But, Inspector General (IG) of Prisons Brigadier General Syed Iftekhar Uddin rejected the allegation of using mobile phone in jails and said that they might have used mobile phone on the way to courts from jails and vice-versa.
“We recovered a large number of mobile phone sets from the accused in last few months. We have already taken a decision to buy sufficient number of luggage scanners and personal scanners to stop the entrance of mobile phone in the jails,” the IG said.
He also claimed that militants have no chance to take mobile phone from the relatives and counsels during the meeting at jail gate with the presence of the detectives.
“Militant leaders are generally produced in court two to three days a week. They got enough time to use mobile phone sets at that time. Even a militants leader was produced in courts in 59 times in last six months,” he mentioned.
We have taken proper step against a militant for exchanging information under his file by identifying the irregularities with the help of close circuit (CC) camera.
On the other hand, an alleged letter from a death row Huji leader in Kashimpur jail shows that militants are changing tactics, using code languages and changing names to devise plan and carry out subversive activities and avoid arrest, sources said.
The letter from Maulana Moin Uddin alias Abu Jandal to Huji men advised them to use the word “Book Purchase” instead of “ambush” while planning attacks like last year’s ambush on a prison van in Mymensingh to free fellow militants, they said.
A photocopy of the letter, seized by Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on July 4 from one of the 12 arrested Huji men. The elite force captured them from different areas in the capital.
According to RAB officials, Abu Jandal wrote the letter to Maulana Mainul Islam Mahim, who is allegedly organising inactive Huji operatives across the county and trying to coordinate with al-Qaeda in the Indian Sub-Continent (AQIS).
Under the law, prison inmates cannot use mobile phones.
If the letter is authentic and Abu Jandal’s claim of using a mobile phone in prison is true, then it also exposes a serious security lapse in Kashimpur prison.
When contacted, Iftekhar Uddin said he did not know if any inmate was using phones there. “I will look into it.”
At least 55 militants are now on death row. But they cannot be executed as they are under trial in other cases.
