Meanwhile, security has been beefed up in Panchagarh following intelligence report that Islamist militants might carry out further bomb attacks on key installations in the district.

Intelligence officials reported a second wave of bomb attacks might be carried out in the district between Thursday and Saturday, sources said.

Besides, Jewel Khan, owner of Colour City Press at Bashabo in Dhaka, was placed on a two-day remand yesterday after he was hauled before the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested him on Wednesday.

SATKHIRA
Our Satkhira correspondent reports: Police yesterday arrested madrasa teacher Abdul Ahad, 38, at a shop in Abader Hat in sadar upazila at about 9:30am.

Acting on a tip off, plainclothes police raided the shop and arrested Ahad, teacher of Budhordanga Mohila Madrasa.

Police sources said Ahad is an active member of banned JMB and his name was on the list of 37 wanted JMB members in the district.

Police also raided his Baliadanga house in sadar upazila that was found locked, as his family have already escaped, sources added.

Ahad was the director of the militancy training wing of the Satkhira JMB, said a top official of the district police.

Contacted, Assistant Superintendent of Police (sadar circle) Delwar Hossain Saidee said, "Ahad is an active JMB member and we have already gleaned some important information from him." He however declined to disclose the information for the sake of investigation.

BAGERHAT
Detectives arrested JMB members Maolana Mizanur Rahman, 40, and Sheikh Iran Moula, 25, on Thursday in connection with the serial blast, reports BDNEWS.

Police said Mizanur is the principal of Rajpat Aliya Madrasa in Bagerhat and Iran is the son of a teacher of the madrasa.

Sources in Detective Branch (DB) of police said the two during interrogation confessed 26 JMB members had received training at a camp in Burigangni village in Bagerhat in 2003.

They also said JMB Operations Commander Siddiqur Rahman Bangla Bhai visited Mollarhat during their training.

SYLHET
JMB cadre Mohsin Khan who was arrested in Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet on Monday gave confessional statement before a magistrate yesterday, reports our Sylhet staff correspondent.

Mohsin admitted he along with one of his fellow activists had kept the bombs at the garden of Sylhet District Judge's Court and at the stairs of the Sylhet ADM office on August 17.

He along with three others including Master Abdul Hai started for Sylhet at around 8:00am from Jaintapur and took breakfast in the city, he added.

Mohsin joined the Sengram Madrasa in May 2004 and had earlier served as an Imam of a Burichang mosque. He said he joined the JMB in 2000 and took training at a hideout in Narayanganj.

Son of Rustom Ali and a resident of Kadiatal village in Comilla, Mohsin was sent to prison. He had served as a teacher in Sengram Mohammadpur Dakhil Madrasa.

PANCHAGARH
Our Dinajpur correspondent adds: Instructions have been given to the law enforcers of Panchagarh to step up security at important establishments and cinemas following intelligence report that a wave of further bomb attacks might be carried out by Islamist militants.

The officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali Police Station told The Daily Star over phone they have beefed up security since Thursday at important establishments including DC office, courts, local press club, post office, Panchagarh Sadar Hospital, bus terminal and Panchagarh Electrification Office.

Police are also checking incoming and out going transport including buses and tracks, the OC added. Eleven check posts have also been set up at different points of the district.

KHULNA
Our Khulna staff correspondent reports: Shahidullah alias Lokman, arrested on September 8 at a house in South Goran in the capital, will be brought to Khulna today showing him arrested in the blast cases filed with different police stations in Khulna.

He has already confessed to his involvement in the bomb explosions at the compounds of Khulna judges' Court and the Court of Chief Metropolitan, Khulna on August 17.

Shahidullah also named Abdul Hakim Gazi, a teacher of Saint Joseph High School in the city, as one of the masterminds behind the blasts in greater Khulna.

Police sources said they have got important clues about from where and how the explosives used in the bombings were sent to target points. Investigators got the lead when they were probing about the source of the two cartons seized on September 22 from Hakim's house.

Apart from the two cartons, police also seized some materials including powder explosives from the house.

The cartons, bearing numbers KHL 243676 and KHL 171076 and containing bomb making materials, were booked from Jessore office of Continental Courier Service, said Sub-inspector Saiful Islam of Khulna DB.

Police however could not detect the people who had booked the cartons, as they did not find the records despite searching the courier service office in Jessore and its head office in Dhaka.