Charge framing against 3 JMB men on May 16
Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday fixed May 16 for framing charges against three Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members in a case filed under the Explosive Substances Act with Uttara Police Station on January 5.Judge Md Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court set the date after scrutinising the case docket and relevant documents. The accused are Wahidul Islam, 20, Shafiqul Islam, 30, Hafez Ibrahim, 30. On March 30, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) pressed charges against five JMB members, showing 36 people as prosecution witnesses. The investigation officer dropped the name of Shakil alias Mollah Omar and Shaon from the charge sheet as Shakil was killed in a gunfight with the law enforcers in Comilla on March 12 while details about Shaon could not be known. Rab seized arms, explosives, books on jihad and bomb-making materials from the house of Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan at Courtbari in Uttara in the capital on January 5 and arrested Wahidul Islam, Shafiqul Islam and Hafez Ibrahim in this connection.
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