Suspected militants arrested in the capital's Jatrabari are paraded at the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Media Centre yesterday.Photo: Star Detectives arrested four suspected members of militant outfit ISIS, including its coordinator in Bangladesh, from the city's Jatrabari on Sunday night. The arrestees were identified as Sakhawatul Kabir, a representative and coordinator of ISIS in Bangladesh, Nazru
l Islam, a financier, Anwar Hossain alias Baten, a convict of an explosive case, and Rabiul Islam. Detectives claimed that they recovered a huge quantity of leaflets, videos on militant training, laptops, four mobile phone sets, one passport, and a visa application form of Pakistan embassy from their possession. Kabir went to Pakistan several times, received militant training and worked for al-Qaeda under the leadership of Javed Akhter Ejaz, who along with three other Bangladeshis -- Ejaz's nephew Ovi, Baten's brother-in-law Sayem and Kabir's brother-in-law Shamim Ahmed -- were killed in a police shootout in Karachi on January 9, DB men said. Detectives in cooperation with the Police Headquarters were conducting drives in and around the city to arrest aides of Ejaz, also known as Kargil or Sajjad in the Pakistani police records, after learning about his death. The items found with them are also shown to the media. Photo: Star Ejaz went to Pakistan during anti-militancy drives in Bangladesh in 2009. According to Karachi police, he joined al-Qaeda as an active JMB leader and eventually ended up becoming the Karachi commander of al-Qaeda in South Asia, a new branch of the global militant outfit that was launched in September last year. The arrestees were actually involved with Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) but joined al-Qaeda. With the emergence of the Islamic State (ISIS), all were preparing to work for the terrorist group, claimed detectives. Advertisement Briefing journalists, Deputy Commissioner of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Sheikh Nazmul Alam said Kabir gained the confidence of Ejaz and he was made Bangladesh chapter commander of the group with the responsibility to recruit operatives in the country. “They got involved with the ISIS in 2009 with the help of Ejaz,” Nazmul Alam told the briefing at DMP media centre. The DC said the four had links with Ejaz, son-in-law of arrested JMB Chief Moulana Saidur Rahman, until his death along with three Bangladeshis in Karachi. Kabir used to stay with Sayem at the same house in Karachi. A detective branch official, preferring anonymity, said Kabir, a student of English department at Government Titumir College, started a business involving computers before completing his studies. “He thus became an IT expert.” A case was filed against them. Detectives produced them before a Dhaka Court seeking 10-day remand for each. Metropolitan Magistrate Mizanur Rahman granted a five-day remand for each of the arrestees.
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