Staff Correspondent

Maulana Tamim, suspected activist of the banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami arrested at Narsingdi in possession of a grenade, was sent to jail on Thursday as his second remand for four days ended on Wednesday.

Tamim was first remanded in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department for five days on January 14 for his alleged involvement in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in Dhaka in which at least 24 people were killed and many others were injured or maimed. He was questioned by the task force for interrogation members during the remand.

He reportedly told the interrogators that he was friend of Harkatul leader Ahsanullah Kajal, killed in a gunfight with the Indian police near a Delhi railway station, when he studied at a madrassah at Mirpur in Dhaka. He said he had helped Harkatul leader Mufti Mohammad Hannan in renting the house of his (Tamim's) uncle at Anandanagar of Badda from where the militants were supplied with the grenades for the attack on August 21.

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