A Chittagong court has placed three members of banned Islamist outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen (JMB), who were arrested in the port city with a huge amount of firearms ammunition in possession, in fresh remand for four days in a case filed under the Arms Act.
The Court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Mahmudul Hasan placed the three JMB activists in four-day remand in the case filed with Hathazari police station after police produced them before the court yesterday with a petition for 10 day’s remand, said HM Moshiur Rahman, prosecution inspector at the court.
The JMB activists – Naimur Rahman Nayan, Md Shawkat Rasel and Faisal Mahmud – were physics students at Chittagong University; they were suspended from the university for their suspected link with militancy.
With the fresh remand, the JMB men have been placed in remand four different cases in the city’s Karnaphuli, Bayezid and Hathazari police stations for different charges. Hearing is pending for another petition for a 10-day remand in a case filed with Hathazari police station.
Earlier on Sunday, another court in Chittagong placed the suspects in a four-day remand in two separate cases filed with Bayezid police station under the Explosives Act and attacking police members and killing a JMB leader, and they were placed in another remand for five days in a case filed with Karnaphuli police station.
The trio were arrested in possession of firearms in different parts of the port city on December 27 and were shown arrested in the case filed with Karnaphuli police station on October 6.
After arresting the three, officials of the Detective Branch raided a JMB den in the city’s Amanbazar 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 Additional Deputy Commissioner Babul Akhtar said Fardin Noman, chief of the JMB in Chittagong, rented the den five or six months ago, identifying himself as a businessman.
