Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel have arrested one more JMB suspect linked to the hijacking of three leaders of the banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).
Wing Commander ATM Habibur Rahman, Director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, has told the Dhaka Tribune.
He said: “A team of Rab-1 personnel have arrested JMB man Khorshed Alam from Konabari in Gazipur on Saturday.”
JMB Majlish-e-Shura members Salauddin alias Salehin, Hafej Mahmud alias Raqib Hasan and Zahidul Islam alias Boma Mizan had been hijacked from a prison van at Trishal on February 23 while they had been taken to a Mymensingh court from Gazipur jails.
The hijackers had also killed one of the policemen, who had been escorting the JMB men.
Of the hijacked three JMB men, Salauddin and Hafej Mahmud were the death row convicts while Boma Mizan was a life term awarded convict.
Meanwhile, Hafez Mahmud had been arrested a day after the hijacking and also killed in a shootout by police.
Earlier in a sequel drive from April 28 to 30, the Rab personnel arrested 8 persons for their alleged link to hijacking Raqib Hasan, one of the three JMB men, while the Detective Branch of police arrested 11 other JMB suspects.