A Jessore court has sent militant suspect Khadiza Akhter to jail. Jessore Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Akram Hossain gave the order as Khadiza was produced before his court with her two-year-old son in her lap on Tuesday morning. Khadiza, who is suspected to be a member of a new faction banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB), surrendered to the law enforcers during a raid in Jessore town’s Ghop Noapara area around 2:30pm Monday. Several teams of police cordoned off a four-storey building, located near the Jame Mosque on Ghop Noapara Road, around 10pm on Sunday. Five families were rescued from the building around noon on Monday and Khadiza surrendered along with her son and two daughters at 3:05pm.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 10, 2017 10:52 UTC