Three more alleged LeT members held
Saturday, 14 November 2009
FE Report
Three more alleged members of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested early Friday on suspicion of having links with a plan to attack the US embassy and Indian high commission in Dhaka, police said.
The arrested were identified as Sufian Azhari (25), Zahid Hossain (26) and Monirul Ali (27). All of them have Pakistani passports.
The suspects were caught from Uttara in the city and from Tongi in Gazipur on information given by the three other LeT members who had been arrested from Chittagong and Dhaka last week, Deputy Commissioner of DB (detective branch) Manirul Islam told reporters at its headquarters.
"The trio is suspected of having links with possible attack on the Indian and the US missions in Bangladesh," he said.
He claimed that Sufian, who had recently completed studies at the Gazipur Islamic Institute of Technology, was maintaining regular contact with top LeT leaders in Pakistan regarding the possible attack on the diplomatic offices.
Later, the DB police produced them to a CMM (chief metropolitan magistrate) court and sought a 10-day remand.
But magistrate Ferdous Ara approved two days to interrogate them.
Police on November 5 had arrested two LeT members, including the son of Mufti Izharul Islam, leader of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote, from Dampara in the port city while another LeT man was detained from Gabtoli in Dhaka on November 1.
The Kashmir-based militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, was accused of Mumbai attack in November last year that left at least 80 people killed and 200 others wounded.
Three more alleged members of Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested early Friday on suspicion of having links with a plan to attack the US embassy and Indian high commission in Dhaka, police said.
The arrested were identified as Sufian Azhari (25), Zahid Hossain (26) and Monirul Ali (27). All of them have Pakistani passports.
The suspects were caught from Uttara in the city and from Tongi in Gazipur on information given by the three other LeT members who had been arrested from Chittagong and Dhaka last week, Deputy Commissioner of DB (detective branch) Manirul Islam told reporters at its headquarters.
"The trio is suspected of having links with possible attack on the Indian and the US missions in Bangladesh," he said.
He claimed that Sufian, who had recently completed studies at the Gazipur Islamic Institute of Technology, was maintaining regular contact with top LeT leaders in Pakistan regarding the possible attack on the diplomatic offices.
Later, the DB police produced them to a CMM (chief metropolitan magistrate) court and sought a 10-day remand.
But magistrate Ferdous Ara approved two days to interrogate them.
Police on November 5 had arrested two LeT members, including the son of Mufti Izharul Islam, leader of a faction of Islami Oikya Jote, from Dampara in the port city while another LeT man was detained from Gabtoli in Dhaka on November 1.
The Kashmir-based militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, was accused of Mumbai attack in November last year that left at least 80 people killed and 200 others wounded.