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Galib sent to Bogra jail, implicated in 5 criminal cases

Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Militant leader Dr Muhammad AsadullahAI Galib was sent to Bogra jail under tight security yesterday as police implicated him in five cases for murder, bomb attacks and robbery at NGO offices in four districts -- Bogra, Gopalganj, Naogaon and Sirajganj.
Rajshahi Central Jail authorities handed him over to police after they placed a production warrant issued by a Bogra magistrate's court for producing him before it in a murder case filed with Shahjahanpur Police Station.
Galib was taken to Bogra
guarded by a huge contingent of police to face legal proceedings in the murder case and also a bomb attack case lodged with the Gabtali Police Station.
Galib, chief of Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab), and Arabic teacher at Rajshahi University, has three other cases against him for robbery at Brae and Grameen Bank offices in Gopalganj, Naogaon and Sirajganj.
Three of his associates -- Shaikh Abdus Samad Salafi, Nurul Islam and ASM Azizullah -- arrested with
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Shafiqullah with explosives and bombmaking materials. Galib has been shown arrested in this case.
After the 10-day remand ends, police will seek Galib's fresh remand in a case regarding the January 14 bomb attack on a jatra show at Laxmikola village in Bogra's Shahjahanpur upazila.
Besides, the police are preparing to link Galib with bomb blasts at Grameen Bank in Ullapara in Sirajganj district.
Earlier in the day, the Ahab chief was sent to Bogra jail under tight security as police implicated him in five cases for murder, bomb attack and robbery at NGO offices in four districts -- Bogra, Gopalganj, Naogaon and Sirajganj.
Rajshahi Central Jail authorities handed him over to police after they placed a production warrant issued by a Bogra magistrate's court for producing him before it in a murder case filed with Shahjahanpur Police Station, reports our Rajshahi correspondent.
Galib was taken to Bogra to face legal proceedings in the murder case and also a bomb attack case lodged with the Gabtoli Police Station.
Galib has three other cases against him for robbery at Brac and Grameen Bank offices in Gopalganj, Naogaon and Sirajganj.
Three of his associates -- Shaikh
Abdus Samad Salafi, Nurul Islam and ASM Azizullah -- arrested with him were implicated in the last three cases. They were not shifted from Rajshahi Central Jail yesterday.
The first two cases against Galib were filed after a bomb attack on a jatra show at Laxmikola village killed one person and injured 40.
The other police stations concerned -- Kotalipara in Gopalganj, Porsha in Naogaon and Ullapara in Sirajganj -will later take Galib to jail custody in the respective districts for legal actions.
The attack on Grameen Bank branch at Nabagram village in Ullapara left two bank employees critically injured on February 16 and a similar attack on a Brac office in Porsha on January 15 left four staff severely injured.
Some more cases are likely to be filed against the Ahab chief in different districts including Natore, Joypurhat, Rangpur and Satkhira, police sources said.
Investigators confirmed Galib's involvement in militancy after seven militants were held while fleeing from Kotalipara Brac office robbery in Gopalganj on January 17.
The seven militants led by Selim Uddin of Narayanganj admitted to police and magistrate they are Ahab members and also work for the JMB. Trained in
Afghanistan, Myanmar and Arakan and also in Cox's Bazar, they can use firearms and make bombs, they told police.
Shafiqullah, also told police JMJB carried out the Shahjahanpur bomb attack and that Galib was their leader. Meanwhile, police and BDR personnel are still keeping a watch on Salafi Madrassah at Naodapara in the city. GALIB'S JIB LINK
The ruling alliance partner Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh (JIB) leaders had always allegedly sheltered Galib.
"He (Galib) was always against JIB but started maintaining close links with BNP and specially JIB since his expulsion from Tawhid Trust and Hadith Foundation in 2002," said a close associate of Galib.
Galib founded the trust and the foundation but reportedly he embezzled funds, provided by Kuwait Embassy, Kuwait-based NGO Revival of Islamic Heritage Society and some other agencies.
Jamaat lawmaker Delwar Hussain Sayeedi had once visited Saudi Arabia with Galib and they had telephonic contact till his arrest, the associate claimed.