Dhaka, April 5 – Alleged “Neo JMB” member Hadisur Rahman Sagor, arrested allegedly for supplying arms for Holey Artisan Bakery attack yesterday made confessional statement before a Dhaka court yesterday.Magistrate Golam Nabi of Dhaka CMM Court recorded the confessional statement of Sagor for over six hours since 12noon.
Humayun Kabir, Inspector of the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), and also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, produced Sagor before the court on Thursday.
According to the CTTC official, Sagor supplied arms and explosives used in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan area that left 20 dead including 17 foreigners in 2016.
Sagor is said to be a brother-in- law of Nurul Islam Marzan, a top “Neo JMB” operative who was also a planner of the café siege.
Earlier on March 22, a team of police arrested Sagor, 36, from Shibganj upazila in Bogura and handed him over to the CTTC unit. He was placed on a seven-day remand hours after his arrest.
Tamim Chowdhury, a suspected mastermind of the Gulshan café attack who was killed during a raid in Narayanganj, allegedly brought Sagor to “Neo JMB”. Before joining the “Neo JMB” in 2015, he was a member of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). – Special Correspondent
