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India holds Bangladesh 'suspect', admits it's Sheikh Rahman
Police in India have arrested a man in connection with a series of bomb blasts in Bangladesh last August. Obaidur Rahman, described by police as an Islamic militant, was held in the state of West Bengal. But the state police say reports that they arrested a leader of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JMB) group, Sheikh Abdur Rahman, are not true. Two other suspects were also arrested with Obaidur Rahman in the police raid in Murshidabad district. UPDATE: MUMBAI, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The head of a Bangladeshi Islamist group blamed for a wave of bomb blasts in that country has been arrested in neighbouring India, Indian police said on Tuesday. Shayek Abdur Rahman, head of the outlawed Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen group, was arrested in India's West Bengal state on Sunday, but police said the news had been kept a secret for the sake of the investigation. "We have arrested Shayek Abdur Rahman. We are interrogating him to find out his role in the multiple blasts in Bangladesh," Raj Kanojia, police inspector general, told Reuters by phone from Kolkata, capital of West Bengal.
Rahman and another Islamist leader, Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai, who heads the radical Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh group, had been missing since nearly 500 bombs exploded simultaneously across Bangladesh on Aug. 17 last year. Posted by: Steve 2006-01-24 |
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