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RAB arrests two JMB members in city
DHAKA, June 10, 2020 (BSS) – Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two members of the banned Islamic militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in city’s Mohakhali area last night.
The arrestees were identified as Ruhul Amin alias Mallik, 38, son of Md Taher Ali hailing from Icchadighi village of Sakhipur upazila in Tangail district and his cohort Mostafizur Rahman, 63, son of Md Iddris, resident of Pallabi area of the city.
Major Sheikh Nazmul Arefin told BSS that a team of the elite force nabbed them from the aforesaid area around 11:30 pm.
RAB also seized 40 sets of photocopies of extremist books, two computer’s central processing units (CPUs), one pen drive, 7 SIM cards and five mobile sets from their possession on the spot, he added.
During the initial quizzing, Mostafizur Rahman admitted that he got the membership of JMB in 1999 and went undercover following the ban of JMB organisation, the RAB official said, adding they secretly met at various points of the city to bolster JMB.
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