Bogra, Dec 30, Police arrested top 'Neo JMB' (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) leader and a death row convict of series bomb blasts in Bangladesh from Bogra's Nandigram upazila on Saturday.
He is one of the main accused of Burdwan blast in India, police said.
The arrested JMB leader Abu Sayeed alias Talha Sheikh alias Shyamal, 35, is a Shura (supreme council) member of "Neo JMB" and its chief in the country's southern region, Md Asaduzzaman, superintendent of police in Bogra, told The Daily Observer.
Sayeed became the JMB's Naogaon district chief in 2005 and was involved in nationwide simultaneous bomb attacks in August 2005, Asaduzzaman told the media.
He fled to India in 2009, married 'Khadijah', daughter of JMB member 'Eyadul' in Murshidabad, and resumed his militant activities.
Sayeed, who goes by several names including Ahmed Karim, Tayyeb, Talha, Shyamol, Hossein, Sajid, Danger, Shakil, Mokhles and Shafiq, was arrested in possession of weapons in Nandigram's Omarpur Bazar around 1:00am on Saturday.
Sayeed has been named in a case over a 2014 bombing at Burdwan's Khagrhagarh in West Bengal, police said.
Md Abu Sayeed aka Karim aka Shyamol Sheikh is the son of Shahidullah Sheikh of Srikol village in Kushtia's Sadar upazila.
In 2002, he joined JMB and began recruitment in northern Bangladesh. In 2004, he became the military chief of the banned organisation's Rajshahi district unit.
Sayeed was involved with the militant activities of executed leaders Siddiqur Rahman Bangla Bhai and Shaykh Abdur Rahman in Rajshahi's Baghmara in 2004. He exploded four bombs in Naogaon as part of a nationwide serial blasts on Aug 17, 2005.
Sayeed fled to India in 2007 after receiving a death sentence over the crime under the Special Powers Act. He resumed militant activities in West Bengal's Murshidabad district in 2009 after marrying Khadijah. He was appointed the JMB leader of India's Nadia district in 2010.
In 2012, Sayeed also took control of the JMB in West Bengal's Birbhum and Burdwan districts.
In 2014, he was accused in a police case for involvement in the October 2 bomb explosion at Khagrhagarh.
He returned to Bangladesh after India's National Investigation Agency offered
Rs 1 million reward for information leading to his capture. In 2015, he joined 'Neo-JMB'
