The Anti Terrorism Unit of Police have arrested a death-row member of the banned militant group Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh from Naogaon's Patnitala upazila.
Sanwar Hossain alias Abdur Rouf, 44, has been a fugitive taking new identity, Abdullah, for 10 years in a case filed with Nachol Police Station in Chapainawabganj.
Aslam Khan, superintendent (media and awareness) of ATU, confirmed the news.
He said: “The arrestee used to work as a mason and rear sheep in Choto Chandpur under Patnitala upazila using a fake identity.
Sanwar, a local homeopathic doctor in Nachol, joined JMB after 2000 under the leadership of Shaykh Abdur Rahman. He then became the chief of JMB's Nachol and Gomastapur upazila unit.
On March 29, 2007, after the execution of Shaykh Abdur Rahman in Cumilla Central Jail, Maulana Saidur Rahman became the Ameer of JMB.
Sanwar along with others on April 26 in 2012 called self-proclaimed Ameer of JMB, Salman, to a mango orchard and killed him. Police recovered Salman's head, from the bank of the Mahananda river, based on the confession of two militants.
A Chapainawabganj court on November 25 in 2019 sentenced Sanwar and two others to death penalty for killing Salman.
