Another member of banned militant Islamic outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh has given confessional statement before a court under section 164 in Chittagong over a mugging case at Chittagong city’s Sadarghat area on September 23.
The Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Kader recorded the confessional statement of Minhajul Islam Sajid, 24, while the court sent him to jail after recording it, Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP)’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) (prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan told the Dhaka Tribune
He was produced before the court at around 3:30pm on Saturday in the Sadarghat mugging case while the confessional process ended at 6:30pm, said the ADC.
ADC Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan told the Dhaka Tribune that “at the three-hour long confessional statement before the court the JMB man admitted his active involvement in the mugging case saying that the mugging operation had been conducted in a bid to collect the militant fund and carry out the expense of the organisational activities.
“One Rubel had trained the arms to JMB men before the mugging operation and afterward they conducted it at the business farm of Sadarghat carrying grenades and arms”, said ADC Minan.
Police sought remand of the arrested JMB men while the court fixed the hearing date on Sunday sending him to the jail, said the ADC.
A team of Detective Branch (DB) of CMP led by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Babul Akhtar arrested Sajid from Nagarpur area of Tangail district on early Saturday for his alleged involvement in the mugging case.
On September, 23, a team of JMB men blasted several grenades during mugging a local businessman at Majirghat area of Sadarghat while two JMB men and the businessman Satya Gopal were killed in the bomb blast.