A Khulna court today (July 18) sentenced two members of the banned militant organization Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to 17 years and six months imprisonment in an Explosive Act case filed in 2020.
 
Judge of Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Rozina Akhter announced the verdict in a crowded courtroom in presence of the JMB men after examining 22 witnesses, said Public Prosecutor (PP) Md Showkat Ali Suza. 
 
Court sources said police arrested two youths near Gallamary area in the city with huge bomb-making materials on January 25, 2020.
 
Momtazul Islam, Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Sonadanga Police Station, filed a case on the next day against them.
 
The convicted youths are Momtazul Islam Rafi, 26, son of Md Rezaul Karim hailed from Shibganj upazila in Bogura district and Nur Mohammad Anik, 27, son of Abdur Rahman of Ghior upazila in Manikganj.
 
They primarily confessed to their involvement in making Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and bomb attacks at a police car garage in Arongghata area in the city on December 5 in 2019 as the active activists of JMB.
 
On August 22, 2020, the then DB inspector of KMP Enamul Haque pressed charge-sheet to Khulna Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court accusing the two JMB men.

BDST: 1738 HRS, JULY 18, 2023
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