A source in Bogra Court said the docket, filed on February 6 against Shafiqullah, his associate Joynal and Joynal's wife with Gabtoli Police Station under the Explosives Substances Act, was could not be found till 4:00pm yesterday.

The docket disappeared from the court after it was taken to Mostafizur Rahman Mridha, the first class magistrate of Bogra, who officially recorded the statement given by JMJB operative Shafiqullah, court sources said.

The magistrate said he returned the docket along with his notes after recording the statement of the accused, as per normal procedure.

Court officials concerned said a top staff of the Bogra police then took the docket to the office of the Superintendent of Police (SP) although SP does not have the authority to read the statement.

Sources in the police department are not sure of the whereabouts of the docket, but said that it may not have been sent back to the court in order to make some changes to Shafiqullah's statement.

But any such changes to the statement after it had been recorded would be a violation of law, the magistrate concerned confirmed. "There is no scope to change the statement given under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC)," he said.

However, SP Kazi Mortaz Ahmed said he did not go through the statement that Shafiqullah gave to the magistrate while the investigating officer (IO) of the case knew nothing about the docket.

Meanwhile, Shafiqullah told police that JMJB chief Abdur Rahman Shai Bhai is indoctrinating JMJB trainees in jihad using quotes from religious scriptures. He lures the operatives with rewards after death for performing 'jihadi' activities and also imparts various forms of training, Shafiqullah said, adding that he himself has attended such lectures.

Meanwhile, the investigation of the two bomb attack cases currently underway by the Shahjahanpur and Gabtoli police stations could not be proceeded after the names of certain college and university teachers were exposed. The arrestees named a teacher of Bogra Azizul Haq College and Dr Asadullah Al Galib, head of the Arabic department at Rajshahi University, as regional leaders of JMJB.

A district police official admitted that the investigation of the two cases -- one involving the bomb attack on Laxmikola village under Shahjahanpur upazila on January 14 and the other regarding the recovery of explosives from Chakshadu village under Gabtoli upazila on January 16 -- has not gone far.

The investigation faltered as the two major accused -- JMJB operatives Osman and Joynal -- could not be arrested.