RAB hand over list of 51 fugitives to NIA team

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have handed the visiting NIA team a list of 51 miscreants, including 10 militants, who have purportedly been holed up in India. On its part the National Investigation Agency (NIA) delegation has handed the RAB a list of 11 terrorists, including several Burdwan blast suspects, who the Indian intelligence agencies believe are hiding in Bangladesh. The lists were exchanged during a meeting of top officials of the two sides at the RAB headquarters (HQs) at Uttara in Dhaka on Tuesday night. RAB HQs sources said that the NIA list contained names of 11 ‘most wanted’ Indian nationals, who, according to the agency, were hiding in Bangladesh. They are ‘Kausar’, Yusuf Sheikh, Borhan Sheikh, Rezaul Karim, Talha Sheikh, Amjad Ali Sheikh, Abul Kalam, Shahnur Alam, Habibur Rahman Sheikh, Zahirul Sheikh and ‘Nasirullah’. The RAB list included JMB’s present chief Sohel Mahafuj and members Salauddin Salehin alias Sunny and Jahidul Islam alias Boma Mizan, Anwarul Islam, ‘Sakhawat’ and Abu Sayed Sheikh Hossain. Sunny and Boma Mizan were among three JMB members snatched by a large group of armed men from a prison van in a Hollywood-style hold-up in February this year on a highway at Mymensingh’s Trishal Upazila. The RAB list also includes four absconding HuJI members - Maulana Tajuddin, Shafiqur Rahman, Jahangir Alam Badar and Mufti Abdul Hai – who are accused in the August 21, 2094, grenade attack case. Among others on the list, the top ones were ‘Shahadat’, ‘Mukul’, ‘Shahin’, ‘Robin’, ‘Zishan’, ‘Joy’, ‘Mamun’, Molla Masud and ‘Kalu’, according to a news agency.