Four Hamja Brigade suspects remanded

A Chittagong court yesterday remanded four alleged operatives of suspected militant group Shaheed Hamja Brigade for three days each.

They will be interrogated about how they trained, whether they have links to any international militant outfit and where they got arms from, said Abul Hashem, public prosecutor of the court of senior judicial magistrate, which passed the order.

The four are among 12 alleged members who were arrested in February for taking militant training in a madrasa of Hathazari upazila, said the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).

The rest were remanded before, it added. The newly remanded are Md Yusuf, 23, Mustakim Billah alias Mashrur, 21, Abdur Rahman Ibne Asadulla, 23, and Harun-ur-Rashid, 20.

On February 19, Rab-7 arrested 12 militants raiding Al Madrasatul Abu Bakar, and recovered laptops, memory cards and audio-video materials used in militant training classes, said the force.

Hamja Brigade men took theoretical classes in the madrasa, it added.

They were sued under the anti-terrorism act.