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CONFESSION-MILITANT-PRAGYA
JMB militant Pragya gives confessional statement
DHAKA, July 22, 2020 (BSS) – Pragya Debnath alias Ayesha Jannat Mohona alias Jannatut Tasnim, 25, an alleged member of women wing of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) today gave confessional statement before a Dhaka court.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Yasmin Ara recorded Pragya’s statement under section 164 as police produced her before the court after the end of her four-day remand. The court then sent her to jail.
Earlier on July 17 Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate court remanded her in the anti-terror act case filed with capital’s Motijheel Police Station.
A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s counter terrorism unit arrested Pragya, an Indian citizen, from capital’s Sadarghat area on July 16 and recovered her Indian passport, a Bangladeshi birth certificate, a Bangladeshi national identity card and two mobile phones from her possession.
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