The newly formed Islamist outfit Ansar Ullah Bangla Team had begun its militant activities under the banner of an NGO in 2004. Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani, chief of the Islamist outfit and a spiritual leader of Ansarullah Bangla Team, revealed this during interrogation in police remand, in connection with the blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case. Blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider, an activist of the Shahbagh movement, was hacked to death by unidentified assailants in front of his Pallabi residence in the city on February 15 this year.
The Detective Branch police arrested Faisal bin Nayeem alias Dwip, 22, Maksudul Hassan Anik, 23, Ehsan Reza Rumman, 23, Naim Sikder Irad, 19, and Nafis Imtiaz, 22, on March 1 this year for killing Rajib. The five North South University students, after completion of their police remands, gave confessional statements before a magistrate under Section 164, admitting that Rahmani was involved in the killing.
Rahmani was arrested, along with 30 of his “followers”, from his house in Barguna on August 11. He is also the chief of “Markajul Ulum Al Islamia” at Mohammadpur. The spiritual leader is now being interrogated at the joint interrogation cell in Dhaka.
Earlier, on August 21, a Barguna court placed Rahmani on a four-day remand in another case filed with Barguna Police Station under Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act.
A senior official of the Detective Branch police, who is also a member of the interrogation team, told The Independent: “The Islamist outfit operated its militant activities under the banner of ‘Research Centre for Unity and Development’, a non-government organisation, from a rented office in Hazaribagh area in the city from 2004 to 2006.”
Mohammad Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective Branch police, told The Independent: “The kingpins of the Islamist outfit always gave priority in selecting its members from some well-known private universities of the country.”
“The highest policymaking body (Sura Member) already trained their operatives and sent them to the US, Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nafis, who was awarded 30 years of imprisonment on the charge of attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, was an active member of the outfit,” he said.
The Detective Branch police arrested Faisal bin Nayeem alias Dwip, 22, Maksudul Hassan Anik, 23, Ehsan Reza Rumman, 23, Naim Sikder Irad, 19, and Nafis Imtiaz, 22, on March 1 this year for killing Rajib. The five North South University students, after completion of their police remands, gave confessional statements before a magistrate under Section 164, admitting that Rahmani was involved in the killing.
Rahmani was arrested, along with 30 of his “followers”, from his house in Barguna on August 11. He is also the chief of “Markajul Ulum Al Islamia” at Mohammadpur. The spiritual leader is now being interrogated at the joint interrogation cell in Dhaka.
Earlier, on August 21, a Barguna court placed Rahmani on a four-day remand in another case filed with Barguna Police Station under Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology Act.
A senior official of the Detective Branch police, who is also a member of the interrogation team, told The Independent: “The Islamist outfit operated its militant activities under the banner of ‘Research Centre for Unity and Development’, a non-government organisation, from a rented office in Hazaribagh area in the city from 2004 to 2006.”
Mohammad Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of the Detective Branch police, told The Independent: “The kingpins of the Islamist outfit always gave priority in selecting its members from some well-known private universities of the country.”
“The highest policymaking body (Sura Member) already trained their operatives and sent them to the US, Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nafis, who was awarded 30 years of imprisonment on the charge of attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, was an active member of the outfit,” he said.
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