Bagmara thana police arrested five suspected members of JMB from Surjapara village of the same thana on Saturday. The arrested have been identified as Altaf (35), Monayem (26), Amjad (25), Kalam (20) and Salam (32). CMM court of Rajshahi yesterday granted a five-day remand for four of the arrested JMB leaders including Rajshahi District Chief Abu Isa alias Enamul. Motihar thana police prayed for seven-day remand of the arrested cadres but court granted a five-day remand.It is learnt, Abu Isa alias Enamul earlier admitted to the RAB that he was incharge of co-ordinating suicide squads of JMB in Rajshahi district. He further informed, he and three of the arrested JMB leaders Hasmat, Azmat and Wahab were involved in organising August 17 bomb blasts in Rajshahi. RAB recovered 2,000 detonators and 144 power gel from their possession on December 16.
UNB further adds: Pabna district commander of JMB and bodyguard of Bangla Bhai Nurul Haq alias Kausar was arrested from his village home at Uttar Moheshpur in Khetlal upazila of the district on Saturday night, officials said. Acting on a secret information, police arrested Nurul Haq, son of Nuruzzaman, in a raid in their house. He fled Pabna and went into hiding in his own village after the arrest of two top JMB leaders-Sunny and Mohammad--in Dhaka and Chittagong.
Police Super Abdullah Al Azad Chowdhury told UNB that Nuruzzaman sent his son Nurul Haq to Bangla Bhai to join JMB as an ‘Ehsar’ in late 2003. Police arrested Nuruzzaman as a member of JMB in connection with bomb explosions in the town during the August 17 countrywide serial bombings. He was later set free on bail. The sources said Nuruzzaman’s son, Nurul Haq, was "mastermind" of perpetrating bomb blasts in Pabna town on August 17.
Giving his identity as a worker of a genji factory at Afri Purbopara in Pabna town, he worked for JMB in the town’s Hemayetpur area. He was ‘most wanted’ terror to Pabna police. During police interrogation Nurul Haq admitted his involvement in JMB militancy and bomb blasts on August 17. The Police Super also said that when Bangla Bhai was in Bagmara of Rajshahi, he worked as his bodyguard. He was trained in JMB acts of militancy from Shelaidah in Kushtia district.