Dhaka: Bangladeshi security forces on Sunday
arrested a top operative of Pakistan-based LeT who is suspect
to be a mastermind in the terror plot targeting the Indian
High Commission and US embassy here, officials said.
Mohammad Motalem alis Majnu, a suspected Bangladeshi
operative of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), was arrested from the
capital`s Motijheel area in line with confessional statement
of three Pakistani LeT operatives arrested two weeks ago,
officials said.
"We arrested Mohammad Motalem, alias Majnu, in line
with the confessional statement of the three Pakistani LeT
operatives," said Monirul Islam, the Deputy Commissioner of
Police of the Detective Branch.
"We suspect him to be a mastermind of a plot to
carryout an attack on the Indian High Commission and US
embassy in Dhaka," he said to a news agency.
He said the 44-year-old suspected militant was
remanded to custody for four days under an order from Dhaka
Metropolitan Magistrate Court for interrogation.
The Deputy Commissioner said Majnu, during initial
interrogation, confessed that he was entrusted with the task
to recruit LeT operatives in Bangladesh and arrange their
passage to Pakistan, India and Afghanistan.
"He confessed that he participated in the Afghan
resistance against the Soviet forces in late 1980s," the
police chief said.
Bureau Report
