The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Gaibandha

The eight militants, detained for storing huge explosives at Gobindaganj, have confessed to investigators that they had planned to make grenades in a bid to create anarchy and violence during the upcoming national election.

Police said that the detained militants also confessed to the investigators about their direct involvement with the banned militant outfit Jam'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), which has intensified efforts to reorganize it in Gaibandha.

Meanwhile, the case related to grenade and explosives recovery was transferred to Detective Branch (DB) from Gobindaganj police yesterday.

Later, the DB men produced the eight militants before court seeking a 10-day remand for them, but additional Chief Judicial magistrate Sharif Uddin Azad granted a five-day remand for them.

Sources at the DB said that they would be able to trace entire network and current operational activities of JMB in the district during the granted five-day remand.

During the primary police interrogation, it was known that regional commander of the militant group Rezaul Karim Rezu alias Shihab alias Hasan initially stored the seized explosives and elements used in making grenade at the residence of JMB second-in-command Amjad Hossain and later these were supplied to the places of their targets.

Earlier, police in a midnight drive Wednesday recovered huge explosives and grenade-making materials from villages Chakshibpur and Par Kachua in Gobindaganj upazila.

During the drive, police arrested JMB regional commander Rezaul Karim Rezu, Monjurul Islam Monju and Al Amin.

Acting on their confessional statements, police later arrested five other JMB members - Mostafizur Rahman, Nannu Mia, Amzad Hossain, Obaidur Rahman and Rowsan Ali.