(RAB) has tossed in the slammerBook 'im, Mahmoud!
a member of Jaamat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh for his suspected involvement in the 2005 kaboom in Mymensingh.
A team of RAB-14 apprehended the suspect, Mehdi Habib Md Rafiq, from a residential building in Board Bazar area, Gazipur on Wednesday night. Rafiq is from Iqbalpur village in Jamalpur disrict, RAB sources said.
The arrestee was a close accomplice with top leaders of the banned Islamist group, especially Shaykh Abdur Rahman and Bangla Bhai, said RAB 14 Commander Lt Col Enamul Arif Suman.
He had been in hiding for the last 10 years, he told the Dhaka Tribune.
The 2005 terror attack in Mymensingh was a series of kabooms that took place in the premises of Mymensingh Court, office of the lawyers' association, Mymensingh Press Club and on the campus of Bangladesh Agricultural University.