Detectives arrested a man yesterday on charge of sending e-mail to the information and communication technology ministry, threatening to blow up important installations of the country and to attack police unless the four top Jamaat leaders are released before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr.

Detective Branch (DB) police arrested Maruf Raihan, a civil engineer and a manpower broker, at Natun Babupara in Saidpur upazila of Nilphamari district around 1:00am.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner AKM Shahidul Hoque disclosed this at a press conference at DB Headquarters in the capital.

Maruf sent the e-mail on August 25 in guise of a Jamaat Sura member to the ministry using his client Mohammad Monir’s e-mail address.

Maruf sent the e-mail threatening to blow up the KPIs and to make attack on police and the ministry officials in a bid to implicate Monir in a legal tangle so that Monir cannot realise the money paid to him [Maruf] for sending Monir to Dubai in 2007, the commissioner said.

Shahidul said Maruf had taken Tk 1.30 lakh from Monir, the owner of Rabeya Fisheries Limited, but did not send him abroad. He also did not return the money to Monir.

“We traced four sent messages from the e-mail address which said if the war criminals of 1971 are tried, they (criminals) will have no passages to retreat but carry out attack on law enforces and KPIs” he said.

The DMP commissioner, however, said they are yet to ascertain the identity of Maruf.

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