The court of Metropolitan Magistrate Md Maruf Hossain on Sunday also
sent three others arrested with Fatima to remand for 10 days each, five
days in each case.
Police’s Crime, Information and Prosecution
Department’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Md Anisur Rahman told
bdnews24.com of their remand.
Criminal Investigation Department
(CID) Inspector Md Anwar Hossain had sought 20 days’ remand, 10 days
each in two cases - one under the Explosives Act and the other under the
Anti-Terrorism Act.
The other three are - Abdullah Kazi, 30, Md Isharat Ali Sheikh, 32, and Md Shawkat Sardar, 30.
The
remand pleas said Fatima was an active JMB member and had been trained
to shoot, make bombs, and launch bomb attacks, when she was with her
husband in India.
Fatima’s husband, Sajid aka Sheikh Rahmatullah
aka Burhan Sheikh was arrested in West Bengal for allegedly leading a
terror module there in the aftermath of the Oct 2 Burdwan explosions.
He
was arrested earlier this month as a prime suspect after Indian
investigators found evidence linking Bangladeshi militants to the blast.
Sajid is said to be from Farazikanda of Narayanganj’s Bandar Upazila.
Fatima, 25, head of the JMB’s women’s wing, was arrested with three others from capital Dhaka’s Sadarghat on Saturday night.
Fatima’s one-and-a-half-year-old daughter ‘Morjia’ is with her.
They were found to be in possession of Jihadi literature, explosives and materials used for making bombs, police said.
Fatima was with Sajid during the explosions in Burdwan house on Oct 2, which was turned into a factory for making bombs.
“She
fled to Jharkhand after the explosion and then from there she made her
way to Bangladesh,” said Additional Deputy Police Commissioner Md
Chanwar Hossain.
She used to coordinate militant training for
women JMB members at the Shimulia madrasa in Burdwan and was among the
three female trainers there, DMP Joint Commissioner Monirul Islam told a
press briefing earlier in the day.
“The madrasa gave meals to poor girls, besides giving them education. Fatima would scout for the most qualified among them.
“They are given physical training and taught to fire weapons and air guns, we were told during the interrogation.”
He said, “At least 25 women got training there. Six of them were Bangladeshi and the rest Indians. They are all on the run now.”
Detectives
were trying to find if she was in communication with the individuals
whose names were handed over by a team of India’s National Investigation
Agency that was in Dhaka recently, he added.
