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AUG 17 BLASTS CASES

Trial starts in Joypurhat

Khulna cops to press charges in a week

STAR REPORT
The trial of the August 17 serial blast case filed in Joypurhat began yesterday, and Khulna police will press charges in a week against leaders of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh (JMJB).
Meantime, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and detectives yesterday arrested four suspected militants of Harkatul Jihad (Huji) and JMB in Cox's Bazar, Lohagara upazila in Chittagong, Feni and Chandpur.
The trial of the JMB men arrested or accused in the case began at the Court of District and Sessions Judge, Joypurhat, reports BDNEWS.
Earlier on September 3, police submitted the charge-sheet against the accused to a lower court, which sent the charge-sheeted arrestees to the district court.
Judge Narendra Chandra Das denied their bail petition and sent them to jail custody after fixing October 11 for full hearing.
As many as 28 people have been charge-sheeted in the case and 20 among them are now behind bars.
KHULNA
Charge-sheet against the top JMB and JMJB leaders will be submitted in a week in connection with the August 17 bombing case filed in Khulna Metropolitan City, writes our Khulna staff correspondent.
Sources said the charge-sheet will include the names of JMB chief Abdur Rahman, JMJB Operations Commander Bangla Bhai, JMB cadre Shahidullah alias Lokman and four others.
Assistant Commissioner (AC) Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) told The Daily Star yesterday Lokman will be produced before court on September 9 for judicial confession.
"The investigation into the August 17 bombing case is nearing completion and we hope to arrest the remaining JMB cadres before submission of the charge-sheet," the AC said.
JMB cadre Lokman during interrogation on Wednesday said he is an
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Ehsar [a bachelor who has sworn not to return home before completing his mission] of the JMB.
Moreover, DMP officials suspect Lokman is a member of the JMB's suicide squad.
They said it is not easy to extract information from Lokman about JMB dens in the city and his links to Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai.
Police sources said 18-year-old Lokman is feigning to be completely puzzled whenever asked about links, if any, between Jamaat-Shibir and the August 17.
"I had no scope to know anything about Jamaat links to the JMB," a police official said quoting Lokman.
He also told the police Mollahat and Chitalmari upazilas in Bagerhat are the JMB stronghold, where training in arms and bomb operations is given at many dens by night.
ARRESTS
The Rab and Detective Branch (DB) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested four alleged JMB and Huji members in separate drives yesterday.
The law enforcers were quizzing the
four until filing of this report at 8:30 last night to unearth information about militant hideouts and operatives, sources said.
A Rab-7 team nabbed Md Asadullah, teacher of Wajedia Madrasa in Lohagara, yesterday morning. He has been brought to the Rab headquarters in Patenga.
Another team of the elite force arrested Abu Sadaat Sayem at around 2:00pm in Rumaliachhara in Cox's Bazar. Sayem was reportedly an active Huji member for quite a few years, sources said.
The Rab also detained madrasa teacher Abu Raihan in Feni district headquarters and sent him to the Patenga headquarters.
The DB in a joint raid with police arrested Galib in Chandpur yesterday morning.
Meanwhile, the two JMB operatives --Laltu and Shahadat -- who were involved in the October 3 bomb attack on the Chittagong courtrooms, were interrogated yesterday, the third day into their 10-day remand.
Sources said the arrestees may be sent to the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in the capital for interrogation.