[Dhaka Tribune] A top leader of banned Lion of Islam outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team who allegedly criminal masterminded the attacks on publishers Faisal Arefin Dipan and Ahmedur Rashid Tutul was placed on a six-day police remand yesterdayMembers of the Detective Branch (DB) of police locked away
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Md Abdus Sabur alias Raju alias Saad alias Salman alias Samad alias Sujon from Tongi Railway Station area on Saturday night.
From a press briefing held yesterday, chief of Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit Monirul Islam said that they had arrested Raju based on information given by two Ansarullah leaders, arrested earlier in connection with the attacks.
Hailing from Nangolkot of Comilla, Sabur, 23, was a student of Jatrabari Faridabad Madrasa, Monirul said. He was a member of the group’s military wing.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police declared Tk2 lakh bounty on Raju, who is believed to be one of the four military wing commanders of Ansarullah ‐ responsible for carrying out machete and gun attacks on a dozen of war crimes trial campaigners, secularists and rights campaigners since 2013.
The government banned Ansarullah on May 23 last year. The outfit is believed to be representing al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) under the name of Ansar al-Islam.
Earlier, detectives arrested Ansarullah leaders Sumon Hossain Patwari on June 15 and Moinul Hasan Shamim on August 23. Both of them involved in the two attacks conducted on October 31 last year.
On that day, Dipan was hacked to death at his Jagriti Prokashoni office at Aziz Super Market of Shahbagh. Another team of Death Eaters attacked Shuddhashar publisher Tutul at his Lalmatia office. Two writers ‐ Ranadipam Basu and Tareq Rahim ‐ who were at his office at that time were also injured in the attack.