The Gopalganj police are likely to seek a 15-day remand today of Galib's three associates Samad Salafi, Nurul Islam and ASM Azizullah in order to interrogate them in connection with the Brac office robbery case. A large contingent of police from Rajshahi and Gopalganj escorted the three to Gopalganj after the Rajshahi jail authorities handed over them to police. The three will be sent to Dhaka for interrogation at JIC.

Following a home ministry instruction, police authorities, meanwhile, are processing a request to question 15 policemen about Galib's television interview Wednesday while under court custody.

The Naogaon police yesterday implicated another most wanted criminal Bangla Bhai, the operations commander of the banned Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, in a case filed for bomb attack on Brac office on February 15 at Porsha in which Galib was also shown arrested.

A team of different intelligence agencies has been interrogating Galib in Dhaka since Sunday in connection with a case filed after the recovery of a large cache of explosives from Chalksudhu village in Gabtoli upazila in Bogra on January 16.

Chief of the Ahle Hadith Andolon Bangladesh (Ahab) and a Rajshahi University teacher, Galib denied his link with terrorist activities and taking part directly in armed activities for an Islamic revolution, a JIC source said.

But he admitted that some of his followers think activities of some development organisations is anti-Islamic and that it is their religious duty to stop those activities.

Galib, arrested with his second-in-command Samad Salafi, Ahab general secretary Nurul Islam and organising secretary Azizullah from Naodapara in Rajshahi on Wednesday, said Ahab activists are now divided.

On expiry of present 10-day remand, police will seek fresh remand of Galib in two cases filed after a bomb attack on a jatra show at Laxmikola village in Bogra's Shahjahanpur on January 14 that killed one person and injured 40.

POLICE UNDER PROBE
An investigation has been underway since Thursday to ascertain how a private television channel secretly taped a video interview of Galib with assistance from a sub-inspector while Galib was kept at Rajshahi metropolitan court custody after his arrest. The policemen expected to be questioned in this regard include Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Rajpara Police Station (PS) Fayezur Rahman, OC of Boalia PS Ahmed Ali, Court Inspector Rezaul Karim, Sub-inspector Alamgir Hossain, havilders Illias and Siddik, constables Abdul Halim, Abdul Hamid, Rustom and Qamrul.

"The government felt embarrassed as Galib told the TV channel that the government arrested them for international pressure," said a source in local police.

After interrogating a number of policemen, senior officials of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) said actions might be taken against responsible persons.

Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, RMP Deputy Commissioner Rawshan Ara said: "We've already completed process for issuance of the explanation letters. We will send those in a day or two."

Refusing to elaborate, she said, "It is completely our departmental issue. It is not necessarily that they would be punished for the interview".

Local police officials, however, said they initiated investigation on instruction from the home ministry.

CONFESSION IN THAKURGAON
Four militants -- Mohbul Hossain Mahabub, Amanullah, Mamunur Rashid Mamun and Asir Uddin Kenu --arrested during training at the Kalibari Mosque in Thakurgaon on February 18 claimed yesterday to be followers of Galib, Salafi and Abdur Rahman.

They claimed their leaders while addressing at different mosques in Dinajpur and Thakurgaon on several occasion asked them to oust NGOs, terming it a part of jihad.

Encouraged by their speech, they joined the jihad, they said. Magistrate Azizul Islam recorded their confessional statement under Section 164.

Police, meanwhile, seized a motorbike, looted from the Grameen Bank in Dinajpur recently, from their possession.