The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will now investigate two cases filed against five Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members, whom they arrested from Shahid M Munshur Ali Rail Station in Sirajganj on October 31 as the Home Ministry has asked the General Railway Police (GRP) to hand over the investigation process of the cases to the elite force.
Sirajganj GRP Sub-Inspector Hayder Ali, also investigation officer of the cases, told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday: “I got a letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs on Wednesday to transfer the investigation process to the RAB.”
“I have already started closing the investigation process from my side in the two cases and hope that all documents could be handed over to the RAB within a couple of days,” he said.
Contacted, RAB’s Legal and Media wing Deputy Director Major Rumman Mahmud told the Dhaka Tribune: “Our official will start to investigate the cases on receiving all documents from the present investigation officer.”
Five JMB members, including its Coordinator Abdur Nur, were arrested by a team of RAB-12 on October 31, when they were coming to Dhaka from Chapainawabganj by ‘Dhumketu’, a train.
RAB-22 Assistant Deputy Director Rezaul Karim filed two cases – one under the anti terrorism act and another under explosives substances act – in this regard.
All the five arrested JMB accused have been put on remand in the cases. They were sent to jail on Wednesday at the end of the interrogations.
Asked, Investigation Officer Hyder Ali, an GRP sub-inspector, told the Dhaka Tribune that they had got some sensational information from the JMB members, including making of explosives in the Sirajganj area, by interrogating them in the cases.
“We would hand over all the information to the RAB as they would now investigate into the cases,” he said.