Dhaka: Over a hundred militants accused in different cases are still active across the country

“The militant network can be dismantled only after their arrests,” a high official of Detective Branch (DB) police requesting anonymity told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.
The official also said a number of banned homegrown militant outfit are indoctrinating people outside of Dhaka to get involved in killings in the capital.
The official who is working to hunt down militant network also said they had so far been able to identify two locations – one in Chittagaong and the other in Khulna – of the banned outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT).
Asked about the number of members of the organisaiton he said there are 15 members in Chittagong while 10 to 12 in Khulna.
The official divulged the information to this correspondent soon after DB police had arrested two members of the ABT from Gendaria and Kamrangirchar of Dhaka early Monday.
The areestees are identified as Moulana Md Nayem alias Saiful Islam alias Sadh and Sohel Ahmed alias Sohel.
With the alarming rise in militancy the police conducted a week-long special drive in which a total of 194 Islamist militants were arrested. The drive is still on.
Abdul Baten, joint commissioner of the DB police, said they had arrested Nayem and Sohel from Faridabad Madrasa of Gendaria and Arafa Islamia Madarasha of Kamrangirchar respectivbely after being tipped off.
The joint commissioner was briefing the media at the community center of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
In primary interrogation, the two arrestees confessed that they had gathered in Dhaka on the instruction of of a top militant leader of the ABT.
Baten. however, declined to disclose the name of the top ABT leader.
This is the first time the ABT members were found recruiting members from madrasas, said Baten.
Later in the evening, DB police Sub-Inspector Shafiqul Islam placing Nayem and Sohel before a court sought a ten-day police remand for interrogation in a case filed with Kamrangirchar police station.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hakim Sarafuzzaman Ansari, however, granted them a five-day remand each.
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