5 JMB men to appear before court April 30

After taking the cases into cognisance for trial, Judge Mohammad Momin Ullah of the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court set the date for the next hearing.

The cases -- one under the Arms Act and the two others under the Explosive Substances Act -- were filed with Uttara Police Station on January 5.

The accused in the cases are Wahidul Islam, 20, Shafiqul Islam, 30, Hafez Ibrahim, 30, Abdullah Al Faruq, 21, and Hanif, 22.

The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on March 30 pressed charges against the five JMB members, showing 36 people as prosecution witnesses.

The investigation officer dropped the name of Shakil alias Mollah Omar from the charge sheet as he was killed in a fight with the law enforcers in Comilla on March 12.

Raiding the house of Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan at Courtbari in Uttara in the capital on January 5, a Rab team seized 19 items of arms, explosives, books on jihad and bomb making materials and arrested Wahidul Islam, Shafiqul Islam and Hafez Ibrahim.

Following information dragged out of them, Rab arrested Abdullah Al Faruq and Hanif.