Bangla Bhai's close aide held

Police arrested a member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Sakoa village in Bagmara upazila of the district early yesterday.

The arrestee is Abdus Sattar, a teacher of Jatragachhi Madrasa in the area, and a close aide of executed JMB leader Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai.

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On secret information, a police team conducted a drive at his village home and arrested Sattar, locally known as Sattar Bsc, said Abul Kalam Azad, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Bagmara Police Station.

He was accused in five extortion cases. The arrestee was later produced before a court that sent him to jail.

JMB chief Abdur Rahman, its operations commander Bangla Bhai and four other top leaders were executed in 2007 for killing two judges in Jhalakathi in a suicide bomb attack on November 14, 2005.