A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny and three others in an arms case filed with Sabujbagh Police Station in December last year. Meanwhile, Sunny urged the prosecution not to ask witnesses to make false statements against them (the accused). He told the prosecution while a prosecution witness was giving his statement in another case at the same court yesterday. Sunny, JMB regional commander of Gazipur Enayetullah Jewel and Alamgir Hossain Bijoy, pleaded not guilty but refused to seek justice in the 'worldly court' after the charges were read out to them by the judge. Another accused Kamrul is absconding. Jewel told the court he was the planner for blasting the grenades in Gazipur on November 29 and 31 last year. Moreover, a Jhalakathi court on May 29 sentenced him to death for killing two judges and the sentence would be executed soon. That is why they would not seek justice in man-made courts, Jewel said.
Judge Monzurul Bachhid of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court framed charges against the accused and issued summons upon the complainant and other prosecution witnesses to appear before the court to give their statements. Sunny, younger brother of Abdur Rahman and a member of JMB's top tier Majlish-e-Shura, masterminded the countrywide August 17 blasts. He was arrested at Tejgaon Polytechnic Institute on December 13 last year. Following his information, Rab seized 56 items of arms, ammunition, explosives, bomb-making materials, and books on jihad from the house of Abul Khair at South Manda Sabujbagh area in the city.