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31 held in Barguna sent to jail

OUR CORRESPONDENT, Patuakhali
A Barguna court yesterday sent to jail the 31 alleged militants of Ansarullah Bangla Team, also known as Ansarullah Bahini, who were arrested on Monday.
Police sought 10 days' remand for the group of suspects, but the court of senior judicial magistrate fixed August 21 for remand hearing.
A team of police led by Additional Superintendent (ASP) Jahangir Alam had arrested the alleged militants, including Ansarullah Bahini's spiritual leader Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, 43, at a house in South Khajurtala of
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Barguna town Monday afternoon.
According to police, the arrestees were then holding a “secret meeting".
Law enforcers lodged a case with Barguna Police Station against the 31 under section-57 of Information and Communication Technology Act, said Officer-in-Charge of the police station Shilmoni Chakma.
ASP Jahangir Alam claimed that police had found Jasim's connections with militant activities and that his statements to police were inconsistent.
Mufti Jasim, however, claimed himself to be a Pir (spiritual leader) and rest of the arrestees as his followers, who had gone there to hear his sermon, said the
ASP.
A director of Markajul Ulum Al-Islamia at Basila of Dhaka, Mufti Jasim used to encourage young people to eliminate atheist bloggers, he added.
The other arrestees are: Rahman Matubbar, 39, Asraf Ali, 34, Awal Siraj, 45, Yusuf Mridha, 24, Alamgir Hossain, 43, Jamal Hossain, 45, Abdul Jabbar, 60, Badol, 30, Kari Abdus Salam, 38, Abu Saleh, 50, Hasan, 19, Aslam, 37, Abdullah, 18, Nayeem, 18, Al Amin, 22, Abul Kalam, 50, Forkan, 32, Hasan, 17, Mizanur Rahman, 17, Abu Saleh, 20, Aiyub Ali, 52, Abdullah, 25, Selim, 32, Moniruzzaman, 28, Mainuddin, 40, Shahidul Islam, 30, Khalil Hawlader, 50, Jonayet Islam, 17, Abdul Jalil, 40 and Mohibbullah, 18.
Of them Aiyub Ali, Khalil and Abdul Jalil are the brothers of Mufti Jasim.
Locals said Jasim Uddin, son of late Nur Hawlader of South Hewlibunia village under Barguna sadar upazila, is the fourth among his five brothers.
He passed Hafezee from Islamia Hafezee Madrasa in Barguna town and later got admitted to Jameya Rahmania Madrasa set up by Shaikhul Hadith Azizul Haque at Mohammadpur in Dhaka. He passed Dowra Hadith from this institution in 1990.
He later studied on Deobond (Arabic) and passed Mufti in Fiquh subject from Sabelus Salam Madrasa in Hyderabad, India. Returning home, he served
as a teacher at Jameya Rahmania Madrasa in Dhaka and Mahmudia Madrasa in Barisal. He had also been the Imam of Sadarghat Jame Mosque in Barguna in 2004.
Jasim also served as a part time teacher at Lisanos University in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Thereafter, he became the Imam of Hatembagh Jame Mosque in Rayerbazar, Dhaka and established a madrasa, Markajul Ulum Al-Islamia at Basila in Dhaka.
ANSARULLAH HQ IN BASILA
Mufti Jasim began delivering radical sermons from Hatembagh mosque seven to eight years ago.
In early 2011, he moved to sparsely populated Basila area where he built a mosque and a residential
madrasa on a piece of land donated to him by several of his followers, said local people. He named his headquarters "Markajul Ulum Al-Islamia, Dhaka." The madrasa houses around 100 students.
Talking to around 10 persons in and around Jasim's headquarters yesterday, The Daily Star learned that while a few local people attended prayers at this mosque, more than 100 outsiders used to attend the Juma prayers every Friday. Sometimes 20 to 30 cars were seen parked outside.
He used to record his own sermons and sell those in the form of CDs at different prices inside the mosque, said locals, adding that copies of the recordings were also made available for pen drives.
Many of his sermons were anti-government and in favour of war criminals, like Delawar Hossain Sayedee, who are now under trial for crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
He promoted his sermons through leaflets attached to the wall of his one-storey house adjacent to the mosque.
Following the killing of blogger Rajib in February, the name of Ansarullah Bahini came out from the five arrested self-confessed killers. Locals wonder, why the police did not arrest him after that incident.
They told The Daily Star that police and detective personnel were often seen hanging around the mosque.