Militant Fahim was from the same gang

All members of the New JMB – a new faction of banned militant group Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, Aminul Islam, 34; his wife Nahid Sultana, 30; Shariful Islam alias Sultan Mahmud Tapas alias Mahmud,18; and his wife Marzia Akter Shumi, 19, were arrested in separate drives early yesterday from Dhaka’s Farmgate and Narayanganj. RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Chief Mufti Mahmud Khan at a press conference yesterday said quoting Aminul and Mahmud had confessed during primary interrogation that the duo along with Fahim had been trained at different parts of the country. Fahim, who was caught by locals while fleeing after the attack on Government Nazimuddin College lecturer Ripon Chakrabarty, was killed in a “gunfight” with Madaripur police on June 18, on the first day of his 10-day remand. The RAB official said: “Aminul and Nahid got married recently. Fahim attended the function and acted as their legal guardian. We have got the evidence.” Fahim was an HSC student of Rajuk Uttara Model School and College. Family members said that he had left home in April in the middle of his exams. During interrogation, Fahim admitted his connection with outlawed militant group Hizb ut-Tahrir, saying that he was recruited by his senior college-mate Jubair Ahmed and two staff at a book shop named Mishkat Library in front of his college. DMP’s Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crimes unit chief Monirul Islam recently told the Dhaka tribune that they had got 49 names of suspected militants from the mobile phone of Fahim. Another CT unit official said that Fahim and his associates were highly trained militants. However, the names they received do not match with the recent arrests, the official said, adding that those could be code names. Police in late June arrested JMB member Khalid Saifullah Jamil, son of Nazimuddin College’s mathematics department head Belayet Hossain, in connection with the attack on Ripon Chakrabarty. The law enforcers also detained Jamil’s friend Mohammad Parvez and Sajjad Hossain of Kalkini, and his maternal uncle Golam Rasul, a teacher at Gopalpur High School.