A Chittagong court has granted two days remand for Barrister Shakila Farzana while three days remand for Supreme Court practitioners Md Hasanuzzaman Liton and Mahfuz Chowdhury Bapon in a case filed with the Hathazari police station in connection with the February 19 busting of SBH’s theoretical training centre.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Mosaddek Minhaz passed the order on Monday morning.
Chittagong District Court Inspector Anu Mong said the Supreme Court lawyers were produced before the court with a five-day remand plea.
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On Sunday, the three lawyers, held for financing militancy, confessed to depositing money into a bank account linked to the Shahid Hamza Brigade, but claimed they were only returning an advocacy fee they had taken in advance.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested the lawyers from Dhanmondi area in the capital on August 18.
In April, RAB discovered the new militant gang that operates its activities in Chittagong region after they detained its four members along with 10 firearms and a large cache of ammunition from a hill in the Lotmoni area under Banshkhali upazila.
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According to RAB, SHB – modelled in line with Syria-based international militant group Mujahidin – was formed in November 2013 by 20 former members of the Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. Thereafter, the elite force arrested 29 members of the group but their top leader, whose name could not be known, is on the run. Those 29 included the chiefs of the outfit’s five sub-wings – three army, one media and one dawa.
During separate drives from February to June, RAB siezed 25 sophisticated local and foreign-made arms including eight AK 22 rifles, 4,443 rounds of bullet, 76 powerful bombs, 150kg explosives, 30 types of bomb-making materials good enough for making 2,000 bombs, and a large number of documents from the possession and based on the information given by the arrested militants.