5 JMB suspects on 5-day remand, terrorism case filed

Rab yesterday filed a case under Anti-Terrorism Act against the five alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), who were arrested from the capital's Jatrabari area on Sunday.

They were handed over to Jatrabari police who produced them before a Dhaka court with a ten-day remand prayer but was granted a five-day remand.

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Rab was tipped off that the JMB men were planning to carry out a terrorist act on the occasion of the Independence Day on March 26. But their source could not give the details, Rezaul Karim, an assistant director of Rab-10, told The Daily Star.