JMB leader arrested
An anti-militancy unit of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a leader of the banned Islamic militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Kurigram district early Tuesday.
The JMB leader Abul Kashem, 25, a close aide to the former JMB chief Matin Mehedi, is a 'Gayree Ehsar'-- a part-time member-- of the militant organisation, said Rab officials.
According to Rab-5 officials, a Rab team led by Additional Superintend of Police Mirza Golam Sarwar, on information, raided and caught Kashem from a closed tea-stall at C&B Ghat area while he was holding a secret meeting with some other JMB men around 1:30am.
However, the other JMB men fled, they added.
Col Moin Uddin Mahmud, director of Rab-5, said Kashem escaped from being arrested when Matin Mehedi and three others of his cohorts were arrested from Hatir Par area of Kurigram with bomb making materials and jihadi books in April 2007.
Kashem has been busy in reorganising the militant outfit, he alleged at a press conference held at Rab headquarters in Rajshahi after the arrest.
Abul Kashem is a charge sheeted accused in the case which was filed under Special Power Act following Matin Mehedi's arrest.
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