 Police of Niklee thana in Kishoreganj have submitted charge sheet against alleged JMB cadre Obaidullah Shumon in connection with the August 17 bomb blasts in the district. Sub-inspector Wajiullah of Niklee thana, who is also investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet before a court in Kishoregabnj on October 29, a correspondent reported yesterday. The charge sheet however recommended acquittal of two other accused-- Harun-or-Rashid and Aiatullah. They were acquitted as their identity could not be ascertained and they were not recognised by the main accused, Obaidullah, police said.
| On the other hand, their neighbors may well beat them to death. Or maybe RAB will find some reason to pick them up... |
Obaidullah and Harun-or-Rashid were produced before the court of Magistrate Ashraful Amin Mukul on October 30. The court sent Obaidullah to jail and granted bail to Harun-or-Rashid. Aiatullah is yet to be arrested.
| Acquittal before arrest. That's a new one on me. |
Two cases were filed against Obaidullah with Niklee and Kishoreganj Sadar thanas. Obaidullah was arrested at Guroi under Niklee thana on September 14 along with explosives. He also faces another case in connection with the bomb blast at bus stand in Kishoreganj town on August 17. Police said during interrogation Obaidullah confessed to his involvement in the blast. Charge sheet in the case will be filed soon, police said.
| "Aaaaaiiiieeee! I confess! I dunnit!" |
Our Tangail Correspondent reports: Top leaders of JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) in Tangail involved in the August 17 serial bomb blasts in the district are still evading arrest.
| "You'll never take us alive, coppers!" |
Police said they are hunting for the 'top 10 JMB cadres' in Tangail, including Shoeb of Balla village in Kalihati, who was 'in-charge of Kalihati region'. Police are also hunting for Russel of the same village.
| "Russell"? What kind of terrorist is named "Russell"? What's next? "Clifford"? |
This correspondent visited Shoeb's house at Balla in Kalihati upazila on Sunday but found none of his family members. A madrasa teacher there said Shoeb and his family members left their house on August 16, a day before the serial bomb blasts across the country.
| "Gone. All gone. Lit out fer parts unknown. Nope. No forwarding address..." |
It was gathered from local people that JMB started its activities at Balla and Rampur areas centering an Islamic Library few years ago. They used to recruit youths from poor families and train them in use of arms and explosives. Shoeb and Russel conducted the training at night. At least 10 families in the region were involved with JMB and they left their houses after the August 17 serial bomb blasts, the villagers said.
| "Have you looked in Burma? They might be in Burma." |
Meanwhile, Kalihati police on Saturday submitted charge sheet in the case filed in connection with the August 17 blasts. The six persons chargesheeted in the case are JMB chief Shaikh Abdur Rahman, Shoeb, Enayet Ullah, Delwar Hossen, Arman-bin-Azad, and Russel.
| "Aye. That Russell's a mean one, he is!" |
Among them, Delwar Hossen is now in custody and the rest are evading arrest. Mentionably, eight bombs went off in different areas of the district town on August 17. Police in a raid on Baropakhia Qawmi Madrasa in Delduar on August 28 arrested Delwar Hossen, 25, of Arihazar of Narayanganj in connection with the blasts. During interrogation Delwar confessed to his involvement in the serial bomb blasts in Tangail. Acting on his confession, police raided the house of one Sirajul Islam at Betdoba in Kalihati on September 1 and recovered one bomb and huge bomb making materials. Tangail Sadar thana Sub-Inspector Khoda Newaz filed a case with Kalihati police station in this regard on the same day. |