Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-13 arrested two presumed operatives of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahedeen Bangladesh (JMB) from Pirjabad area in the city on Friday evening.
“On a tip off, a special operational team of Militancy Cell of RAB-13 conducted a raid at Pirjabad area here and arrested the JMB militants red-handed with huge ‘jihadi’ books and leaflets,” a press release said today.
The arrested JMB operatives are Azizul Islam alias Salehi, 30, son of Abdus Sattar of village Panihara in Sadar upazila of Panchagarh and Shahnewaz Islam alias Nishat, 26, son of Nurul Islam of Pirjabad area in Rangpur city.
“During primary interrogation, the arrested militants admitted that they were engaged in collecting tolls from innocent people by delivering wrong interpretation to continue their organisational activities and purchase arms and ammunition,” the release said.
They regularly participated in secret organisational meetings, inspiring innocent youths to become members, enlisting new members locally, preparing database of their members, conducting trainings and other plans.
“The JMB men delivered information about their planning for conducting subversive activities in the region, snatching money from NGOs and killing eminent personalities across the country.
After filing a case in this connection against the arrested JMB operatives, the elite force handed them over to Kotwali Thana of Rangpur Metropolitan Police today.
(BSS)
