Police get five days to question four ‘JMB activists’ over attack on Pabna priest

Police will question four out of the five ‘JMB activists’ arrested over the attack on a Christian priest at Pabna’s Ishwardi.

Pabna Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 13 Oct 2015, 08:18 AM
Updated : 13 Oct 2015, 08:22 AM

The Pabna Cognisance Court granted police five days remand to question them after they had asked for ten days.

Police said the one of those arrested—Rakibul Islam Rakib alias Tauhid—has confessed to the police over his involvement in the attack.

On Monday, Pabna police produced the five in front of the media and claimed they were activists of Jamaa'tul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). They said Rakib was the ‘regional chief’ of the banned militant outfit.

On Oct 5, three youngmen attacked Father Luke Sarkar, 50, at his home in Ishwardi town’s Schoolparha.

Sarkar, the priest at the local Baptist Mission’s Faith Bible Church of God, managed to escape with a cut on his throat.