Working with militant outfits is a one-way road and if anyone tries to come back to normal life, they are headed for only one destiny – death.
This is what detective police have learned from the eight JMB militants – including the banned outfit’s acting chief Abu Talha alias Fahim alias Pakhi – who had been arrested in Dhaka’s Uttara and remanded on Tuesday.
The JMB men have started giving information but everything is at the primary stage and more time would be needed to get clear aspects, said Mahfuzul Islam, additional deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch (DB).
“We are hopeful about solving many mysteries soon,” the ADC told the Dhaka Tribune.
Detectives suspect that Pakhi – son of JMB chief Maulana Saidur Rahman, now in Kashimpur Jail – and his associates have killed a man named Fazle Rabby, 30, who wanted to give up militancy, in the Saghata area of Gaibandha district.
The Dhaka Tribune yesterday contacted Rafiqul Islam, OC of the Saghata police station.
Rabby was a member of the Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and a close associate of their executed leader Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai. He had a conflict with another faction of the outfit and was probably killed because of that, the OC said.
“Investigation is under way and we have already arrested a man named Enamul in this connection,” he also said.
According to Gaibandha police, Rabby secured bail in 2007 after being in jail for a long time. He came to Dhaka after that and started living a normal life by taking a job for a private company. He hardly ever went to his village home, but was killed when he paid a rare visit during this Eid-ul-Fitr.
Sources said that Rabby stopped maintaining contacts with JMB after his release and started working as a police informant. JMB operatives and informers started keeping an eye on Rabby on suspicion that fed police with information on JMB chief Saidur Rahman and his associates.
Pakhi said custody that he believes Rabby tipped off detectives leading to the arrest of his father Saidur in Dhaka in 2010. Detectives suspect that Pakhi and his cohorts planned the murder of Rabby to avenge his father’s arrest.
Yesterday was the first day of the three-day remand for Pakhi and his seven associates.
