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Shibir man admits to be JMB bomber

16 captured; families of Barisal charge-sheeted accused demand judicial probe

STAR REPORT
Rajshahi police yesterday arrested a bomb manufacturer of the outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who claimed to be working actively for Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) simultaneously. The police also arrested 15 more suspected JMB cadres from across the country.
RAJSHAHI
The police yesterday chased five people and arrested a JMB bomb manufacturer also a suicide squad member Razzak alias Mahbub Ullah Jibon alias Suman alias Masud from Kashiadanga area near the Bornali Cinema intersection in the city, our Rajshahi correspondent reports. The other four including a high-ranking JMB leader managed to escape.
Razzak admitted that he is an active member of ICS, Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing, at Meherchandi area, and that he also worked for JMB. Razzak said he was engaged in bomb-making and recently was included in the suicide squad.
His neighbours said he had close relations with local ICS and Jamaat leaders. He was often seen in Jamaat processions and in skirmishes involving the organisation on Rajshahi University campus.
The Police however recorded his father's name as Belayet Hossain based on information from Razzak but his neighbours told reporters that his father's name is Abu Taleb Ali, who is deceased. Razzak's brother Sohrab is also a JMB cadre who was arrested two months ago.
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Meanwhile, Zillur Rahman Mahin arrested from Naogaon on Sunday confessed in a statement recorded before a metropolitan magistrate yesterday that he had been involved in the August 17 blasts. He said directed by JMB commanders he planted a bomb at Rajshahi New Market.
He also named several other JMB leaders, but the law enforcers did not disclose their names for the sake of investigation.
JMB's Rajshahi zone commander Shafiullah alias Tarik, Tarikul and Rezaul, who had been arrested with about 5000 detonators in their possession on Sunday were placed on a seven-day remand yesterday.
The police said Tarik was appointed as Rajshahi zone commander after JMB chief Abdur Rahman's son-in-law Abdul Awal had been arrested in Thakurgaon. BARISAL
Family members of the five accused in a number of cases of August 17 bomb blasts in Barisal city demanded judicial inquiry into the cases and punishment for the real perpetrators claiming their relatives' innocence.
As the police have no intension to arrest the real perpetrators, they accused the same persons in 12 cases of bomb blasts at 18 places, which occurred at the same time in the city, they said. The police are harassing innocent poor people, they alleged. They sought intervention by the president and the prime minister and human rights activists of the country on humanitarian grounds.
Meanwhile, the police raided different spots and residential hotels in the city and arrested three suspected JMB cadres from the Patarhut Boarding yesterday. They were sent to jail.
MYMENSINGH
Eleven persons out of the 12 arrested in connection with the huge caches of bombs, explosives and bomb making materials that had
been recovered on Sunday, were remanded yesterday.
Only Humaira Khan, the landlady of one of the houses from where the caches were found, was released after primary interrogation.
Two separate cases were filed under Explosive Substances Act against nine persons while two were shown arrested under section 54. The court sent them to remands.
Asaduzzaman, one of the arrestees who is the JMB commander of the district, yesterday said he had taken training at Ghoradap under Jamalpur Sadar upazila from Ataur Rahman Sunny in 2003. He also said bombs were made in two houses in Akua area of the town where Sunny used to visit often.
He also had telephone contacts with Bangla Bhai and Shaekh Abdur Rahman, he said. But he denied his involvement with the military activities of JMB as well as with August 17 blasts throughout the country.
Meantime, Rapid Action Battalion and the police have recovered a hand-grenade from a drain beside the boundary wall of the Girls' Cadet College at Sehara Para Road in the town yesterday afternoon.
Netrakona Sadar police yesterday arrested a suspected JMB suicide squad member Alamgir Fakir alias Alam, 28, from Madanpur Purbapara and produced him before the court with a seven-day remand prayer.
Kurigram police arrested six suspected JMB cadres raiding different spots in the district.
A JMB cadre Dr Mukul, who had been arrested last month from Satkhira, was placed on a sevenday remand yesterday and taken to Joint Interrogation Cell, while three JMB suspects, Ruhul Quddus, Asadul Islam and Saifullah were remanded for three days.
In Kishoreganj, suspected suicide squad member Rafiq, who had been arrested from his house at Fakir Para village under Pakundia
thana on December 17 for sending letters containing threats to the UNO of Pakundia, was placed on a 3 day remand yesterday.
Pabna Sadar police arrested four suspected JMB cadres with organisational leaflets and jihadi books in their possessions Sunday afternoon.
The Bogra police yesterday arrested three JMB suspects from the district.