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Militants under watch ahead of Shaheed Day

6 February 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Khulna

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) is taking preparation to launch combing operations ahead of Shaheed Day in ten districts of Khulna division. Surveillance by intelligence agencies at key points in the districts has already been intensified, but the Rab officials would not disclose the exact date for starting operations, as it might help the militants and criminals to flee their hideouts. Islamist militants now in different Jails in Khulna division have been kept under constant watch. They will again be interrogated if situation so demands, police sources said. Sources in the Rab claimed that a new strategy is being followed by intelligence agencies to achieve greater success in gathering information about movements of Islamist militants and track them down. Rab and special branch of police are also keeping watch on suspected places including madrasas, private hostels and residential hotels, sources added. Meanwhile, the cases filed in connection with serial blasts at nine places of Jessore town on August 17, 2005 have been shifted to Khulna Speedy Trial Tribunal for quick disposal. Nine separate cases were filed with Jessore Kotwali and Railway police stations the same day. Jessore police and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Dhaka, jointly investigated the cases and then submitted charge sheets to Second Additional District and Sessions Judge's Court, Jessore, accusing 14 cadres of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). During trial, the court recorded statements of the prosecution witnesses. But the cases have been shifted to Khulna Speedy Trial Tribunal, which will begin hearing of the prosecution witnesses from February 26.