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Download PDF The government has yet to bring any specific charges against the 27 militants arrested during a training session at a Qawami madrasa-cum-militant den in Mymensingh on August 2.
Legal experts fear the militants may soon get bail from court, as the police did not even file a General Diary (GD) against them.
So far they have only taken 11 arrestees on remand for quizzing under Section 54.
Earlier on different occasions a good number of militants including the top brass had been released on bail as they were produced before the courts under the same section.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) captured the 27 militants and recovered bomb-making materials and training equipment from a remote Jamia Islamia Nurul Ulum Qawami Madarasa at Jibontola village of Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh.
The militants tried to swoop on the elite crime busters carrying out the raid, said a Rab official after the raid.
Rab officials said the bomb-making materials bore strong resemblance to the ones seized earlier from different parts of the country.
They also claimed that three of the arrestees admitted that they had been receiving military training at the Jibontola den.
On reason for not filing a case against them, Bhaluka police said they are waiting for reports confirming whether the materials seized were explosives.
“I have been pressing repeatedly for confirmation but to no avail. The Directorate of Explosives and Criminal Investigation Department have yet to send us the reports,” Sub-Inspector Rabiul Islam of Bhaluka Police Station, who is currently investigating the matter, told our district correspondent.
On the contrary, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mizanur Rahman of Bhaluka said he has received reports on two out of the three specimens he sent for confirmation. The reports confirmed that the seized materials could be used in bomb making.
He yesterday told The Daily Star that the interrogation is going on and police would lodge two cases — one under arms and the other under explosives acts– shortly after getting the nod from his superiors.
Significant leads have been obtained during interrogation of the arrestees, he claimed.
Two prospective suicide bombers and a veteran of the Afghan war, Mufti Abdur Rouf, are among the militants now detained in Mymensingh jail.
Police first placed seven of them on a 10-day remand each. Later, four more — Abul Hossain, Omar Faruq, Mohibullah, and Ibrahim — were remanded after their names came up in the information obtained from the seven.
Rabiul said he would bring another militant Sumon for interrogation as his name too has come up lately.
Meanwhile, police also did not bring any charge against Munshi Nuruddin Haider, the founder of the madrasa who was arrested the same day in an extortion case.
“Munshi, now in jail, fronts the managing committee of the madrasa and he might have links to the militant activities,” the OC said adding that they may bring a charge against him as well.
The arrestees include Abdur Rouf, Kazi Nurul Alam Siddique, Tofazzal Hossain, Ibrahim Khalil, Anwar Hossain, Safayet Hossain, Masudur Rahman, Jamal, Sahabuddin, Mahmudul Hassan Sumon, Nizamuddin, Afzal Hossain, Ershad Hossain, Arshaduzzaman, Abdul Quiyyum, Tofazzal Hossain, Saiful Islam, Abdul Hannan, Omar Faruq, Mohammad Ibrahim, Mohibulla, Maksudur Rahman, Mohammad Quamruzzaman, Yasin, Mir Hossain and Nuruddin Haider.
Rouf, 42, had been arrested several times before in Faridpur and Cox’s Bazar in 1993 and 1995.
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