6 youths radicalised by Al-Qaeda ideology remanded

A Dhaka court on Monday placed six youths, who have allegedly been radicalised by the ideology of Al-Qaeda and were planning to stage armed jihad in the country, on five-day remand each in a case lodged under Anti-Terrorism Act, reports BSS.

The remanded accused are- Abdur Rab, 28, Md Sakib, 23, Shameem Hossain, 18, Nadim Sheikh, 19, Md Absar, 20, and Said Uddin, 18. 

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Rashidul Alam passed the order as police produced the accused before the court and pleaded to place those on 10-day remand each in the case filed the capital's Jatrabari Police Station.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit arrested them in separate raids in Dhaka's Sayedabad, Chattogram and Cox's Bazar's Teknaf on Sunday.

According to the CTTC, the arrestees in primary interrogation confessed that Abdur Rab was working as the organiser and gathered the group together with the help of social networking sites. They were planning to go to Teknaf to train in militancy.