New JMB couples placed on remand
Publish : 08 Sep 2016, 22:34
A Dhaka court has placed two New JMB couples, who were arrested ahead of their travel to Pakistan, on a five-day remand each on Thursday.The couples were remanded in a case filed under anti-terrorism act, said Inspector [Investigation] of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station Sabbir Ahmed.Earlier, Nayek Subedar Abul Hossain of the RAB filed the case with Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police on Wednesday night, a day after the trained members of militant outfit New JMB were arrested.One couple – Aminul Islam, 34, and his wife Nahid Sultana, 30 – was assisting the other members of the outfit to flee the country by processing their passports and visa-related documents, said RAB officials.The two other arrestees are Shariful Islam alias Sultan Mahmud Tapas alias Mahmud, 18, and his wife Marzia Akter Shumi, 19.The four were traced and arrested after Shumi’s father Monsur Ali Sheikh filed a complaint with the elite force stating that his daughter had been missing since August 20.A team of RAB 2 arrested Mahmud, Shumi and Aminul from a restaurant opposite to Ananda Cinema Hall at Farmgate around 12:30am Wednesday on a tip-off. Based on information provided by them, RAB detained Nahid from a residence in Narayanganj’s Fatulla area.Contacted, Mohammad Ali, second–in-Command of RAB 2 told the Dhaka Tribune: “Although the arrestees were handed over to the police, RAB will take over the case after completing all legislative procedure.“It will take some 10 to 15 days to complete the procedure.”