A team of the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), a specialized unit of Bangladesh Police, arrested a fugitive member of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Mouchak area of Gazipur’s Kaliakair on Monday night.
The arrestee is Noor Alam Moaz,29, son of Abdul Aziz of East Naodabas in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat.
Tipped off, the ATU members conducted a drive in the area around 11:30pm and arrested him, said Mohammad Aslam Khan, Superintendent of Police (Media and Awareness wing of the ATU).
He was an accused in a case filed at Hathazari police station under the Explosive Substances Act in 2011. The trial of the case is underway.
On December 26, 2010, some JMB men including Noor Alam carried out a bomb attack on police in Chattogram’s Hathazari. Police arrested another JMB member Shamim Hasan from the spot.
However, Noor Alam managed to flee the scene and since then he remained absconding, he added.
Source: United News of Bangladesh