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Police, jailers colluded in plot

Say home ministry investigators on JMB ambush

M Rahman
Jail and police personnel were involved in the ambush plot that resulted in three top JMB men getting snatched from a police van on Sunday, a home ministry investigation committee has concluded.
"Both the police and jail authorities ignored all norms for transporting the militants by providing unprecedented poor security - a part of the plot," a source in the probe body told The Daily Star yesterday.
Earlier, escort vehicles with additional forces were used whenever the trio was moved out of the prisons but on Sunday only four cops, including the driver of the prison van, transported them, said the source.
The investigators also found that an acting reserve inspector of Gazipur, instead of a top police official of the district, dealt with the jail authorities' letter that sought
FROM PAGE 1 security during the transfer of the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh militants to Mymensingh from Gazipur.
A home ministry official said usually senior police officials deal with such a matter. When the home ministry's investigators asked the acting reserve inspector as to why he provided the prison van with such poor security, the police officer said he had signed the letter without going through it properly.
The jail personnel would not have gone ahead with the transportation with such poor security measures unless they were involved too, the official added.
The jail authorities deactivated mobile phone signal jammers inside the jail and allowed the militants to use phones who apparently used the opportunity to plan the ambush and escape, opined the probe body.
The probe body would recommend that the government identify the plotters, said a top official of the
ministry preferring not to be named.
The four-member body, led by Additional Home Secretary Nazim Uddin Chowdhury, is likely to submit its report to the ministry's Senior Secretary CQK Mushtaq Ahmed today.
It will recommend finding out why the jail authority's letter did not reach top police officials and who allowed the JMB men to use mobile phones inside the jail.
In a Hollywood action film style ambush, a group of militants opened fire on the prison van on the highway in Trishal of Mymensingh and snatched JMB militant and death row inmates Salahuddin alias Salehin and Rakib alias Hafez Mahmud, and the banned outfit's explosives expert BomaMizan.
The ambush left a constable killed.
Hours after the attack, police captured Rakib and he was killed ina "shootout" early Monday.
Salehin and Boma Mizan are still on the run.