Mahamuda Begum, wife of arrested JMB leader Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, is leading the women suicide squad of the banned outfit in the country, intelligences have got this information after primary interrogation of Rajib Gandhi.
Intelligences sources told The Daily Observer on Monday that Mahamuda might have hideouts in the northern areas of the country. She might be capable of carrying out subversive activities in the country.
A woman and a man suspected of being militants blew themselves up on the outskirts of Dhaka city last year, police said. "This is the first incident in the country where a female militant committed suicide" by detonating explosives on her body.
Police said the women members of the squad married the members of the militant group, Jamaat-ul-Mujahedeen Bangladesh, who are suspects in a series of attacks against civilians in recent years.
Bangladesh is still reeling from attacks by militants against secular writers, bloggers, religious minorities and foreigners that began in 2013. In July, militants attacked a bakery in Dhaka, killing 22 people.
One of the women, who surrendered on Saturday, was wife of a former army major, who turned extremist and was killed by the police in September.
On Monday, police produced him before the court of Bogra's Senior Judicial Magistrate, seeking eight days; remand over an explosion case in Bogra's Sherpur and seven days in an Anti-Terrorism Act case filed over an incident in the northern district's Shibganj.
Police's counter terror chief Monirul Islam said Rajib was a close aide to top Neo-JMB leader Tamim Chowdhury and served as the commander of the military wing of Neo-JMB in North Bengal.
"During primary interrogation, Rajib confessed to his directly involved in plotting the Gulshan attack with Tamim Chowdhury and Nurul Islam Marzan," he said. Police are questioning him in custody for its case on the deadly attack carried out on Gulshan's Holey Artisan Bakery on July 1 last year.
Police also failed to arrest a women, who are directly involved with Burdwan blast. The blast case is now being investigated by the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The Centre transferred the case despite reservations expressed by TMC, the ruling party in West Bengal.
