A Chittagong court yesterday sent three members of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to prison after they were interrogated during a five-day remand in a case filed under the Anti-terrorism Act.
Metropolitan Magistrate Rahmat Ali sent Naimur Rahman Noyon, Shawkat Rasel and Faisal Mahmud to jail as police produced them before the court after the end of remand.
The trio were arrested in possession of firearms in different parts of the port city on December 27 last year, and were shown arrested in the case filed with Karnaphuli police station on October 6.
They all were students of physics at Chittagong University but their studentships were suspended by the university authorities for suspected link to militancy.
After arresting the three, Detective Branch (DB) officials raided a JMB den in the city’s Aman Bazar area and recovered American semiautomatic MK 11 sniper rifle along with 250 rounds, two magazines, 10 detonators, 12 sets of Bangladesh Army uniforms, and some books and other documents.
DB’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Babul Akhtar said Fardin alias Noman, chief of JMB in Chittagong, rented the den five to six months ago, identifying himself as a businessman named Nafis.
