Counter-terrorism unit claims to have foiled a plot to kill a top Islamic scholar for his outspoken stance against militancy by arresting six “Neo JMB” operatives in Dhaka.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrest two suspected militants of “Neo JMB's Sarwar-Tamim group" from Rupganj in Narayanganj district.

Police claim to have arrested 19 people including three fugitive operatives of “Neo JMB”, an ultra radical offshoot of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), from different parts of Dhaka and Laxmipur district.

Lawmen identify the man dead in “suicide blast” of Jhenidah raid as Abdullah Abu, who escaped during a raid in the district in April.

Police recover 17 large plastic containers of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used to make bombs, from the suspected Neo JMB militant hideout in Jhenidah Sadar upazila. The chemical containers were seen brought out from a house at Porahati village by rickshaw-vans, police said.

Law enforcers claim to have recovered a huge stash of arms and explosives including suicidal vests and pressure-cooker bomb from a suspected hideout of Neo JMB den in Jhenidah Sadar upazila this evening.

One of the four militants killed in the army operation in Sylhet is believed to be Maynul Islam Musa, a key leader of the militant outfit “Neo JMB”. Police matched the photograph of the dead militant with that of Musa to come to this assumption.

A Chittagong court places two militants on 12-day remand each in connection with four cases filed over Wednesday’s raid at a militant hideout in Sitakunda of Chittagong.

Four lawsuits have been filed over yesterday’s Sitakunda raid, which resulted in deaths of four “militants” and rescue of 20 people in an overnight drive “Assault 16”.

Law enforcers cordon off a suspected “Neo JMB” den at Bagbaria in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong. Two teams of Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) and Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) from Dhaka join the drive.

Counterterrorism officials have arrested the alleged spiritual leader of “Neo JMB”, who they think approved the Gulshan café attack plot last year.