Salauddin Kamran, 30, was arrested on September 28 around 8pm. He is close to new-JMB coordinator and the Gulshan attack mastermind Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, police said.
Meanwhile, A Dhaka court yesterday placed him on a six-day remand for his alleged involvement in the Kallyanpur militant den.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mahmudul Hassan granted the remand after DB Inspector Jahangir Alam produced Salauddin Kamran, 30, before his court seeking a 10-day remand.
During primary investigation, Kamran told police that he was close to Abu Hakim, a militant who was killed in the Kallyanpur raid on July 25, said Deputy Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Masudur Rahman.
He said he came to Dhaka in May after joining the militant group and was trained in Paikpara area by now detained militant suspect Rakibul Hasan Regan. Kamran was also close to killed militant Tamim Chowdhury and other top brass of the new-JMB.
According to police, Kamran told them that he had been working to spread the ideology of new-JMB and give momentum to its activities. He also confessed to planning and carrying out subversive activities in the country.
Earlier, The one-hour-long “Operation Storm 26”, nine militants were killed and one of their accomplices was taken into custody by the law enforcement agencies during a raid in a house in Kallyanpur area on July 26.
On the other hand, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, the mastermind of Gulshan attack with alleged IS link and two other suspected militants were killed in a drive in a militants’ den in Paikpara area of Narayanganj town on
August 27.
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