[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested four suspected JMB members at Bandarban early yesterday while Rab arrested two more at Bagerhat on Monday. With the help of Bandarban sadar police, Naikkhangchhari police caught four JMB men from two separated residential hotels in the town.
The arrestees are identified as M Afsar Selim, 37, Shahidul Islam, 28, Abul Bashar, 20 and Nurul Afsar, 28.
Police said Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) earlier arrested these four at Naikkhangchhari check post on September 19. They were coming from Jaruliachari, a hilly border area. The four were produced before a court and placed on remand. Afsar Selim, on September 21, confessed that he was an ex-active member of Rohingya Solidarity Organization, a militant organization of Arakan Rohingya independent movement, police added.
The four men were released on Monday. A Bandarban Judicial Magistrate's Court granted them bail.
Police said they arrested the four again during a drive against JMB and also because their movement seemed suspicious.
They were later, produced before a local judicial magistrate's court. Police sought a ten-day remand, which is to be decided today after the hearing of the charge. "We have information that after release the arrestees were trying to contact other JMB men," Officer-in-charge of Bandarban Police Station Jahangir Alam told The Daily Star.
In a joint operation of Rab-6 and police two more JMB men were arrested on Monday at Gaola union under Mollahat upazila in Bagerhat.
The arrestees were identified as Akbar Ali Munshi, 24, son of Wahab Ali of Sharulia village and Daud Hossain Sheikh, 40, son of Abdur Rashid Sheikh of Udaypur village under Mollahat upazila.
Rab recovered 17 brochures and over a hundred of leaflets with instructions and guidelines on how to carry out militant activities.
Of the arrestees, Daud is wanted in connection with serial bomb blasts in Bagerhat town on August 17, 2005, police said.