Acting on a tip off, a team of Detective Branch (DB) of police raided the house around 9:00pm. The police also picked up his wife Rina Akhter for quizzing.

Chan Mian was absconding since the arrest of Bangla Bhai at his Rampur village house in Muktagachha on March 6.

Bangla Bhai along with his bodyguard Masud came to his house three nights before the arrest, Chan told the press.

Denying his involvement with Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), he claimed to have asked the militant kingpin to leave his house. But he [Bangla Bhai] refused, saying, "Nothing would happen."

Chan, who shaved his beard to evade arrest, claimed he was watering IRRI field when Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) cordoned off his house. He immediately fled the scene and took shelter to his father-in-law's house.

Meanwhile, JMB supremo Abdur Rahman will be produced before a Dhaka court today seeking further remand for interrogation on expiry of a 10-day remand granted by a Sylhet court in two cases filed against him following his arrest.

Rab Director General MA Aziz Sarkar said they would consult legal experts and then decide which court Rahman will be hauled before.

Eight others including Rahman's wife and two aides -- Moizul Islam alias Hridoy Chowdhury and Hanif alias Abdul Aziz -- will be sent to the Sylhet court as their 10-day remand also expires today, sources said.

Bangla Bhai might be taken to the Task Force Interrogation Cell for quizzing in three days, sources said.

"Bangla Bhai is recovering fast and he has already been shifted from the intensive care unit. We are expecting that he would be fit for interrogation in two to three days," the source said.

Meanwhile, tipped off, Rab personnel conducted an operation in a train at Ullapara in Sirajganj on Friday night to net JMB's Majlish-e-Shura members Salahuddin and Khaled Saifullah. The drive however did not succeed.

Sources also said three Rab teams are hunting for the two JMB leaders in Sylhet region.

Our Mymensingh correspondent reports: Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Quayyum yesterday visited Mymensingh and asked the investigation officers (IOs) to complete their probes into cases filed for the blasts at four cinemas in the town in 2002.

Investigations into the four cases have so far made no headway. But the investigators have now got a vital clue as JMB chief Abdur Rahman admitted to the interrogators recently that the blasts were carried out at his instruction.

"Now we have got a clue to complete the investigation into the cases," Quayyum told reporters yesterday.

Contacted over phone last night, Quayyum told The Daily Star they have neither invited Interpol nor Interpol gave any proposal to visit Bangladesh to assist local investigators about the militants. "I do not have any information that Interpol members are coming."

A private TV channel yesterday reported that three members of Interpol arrive in Bangladesh tomorrow to assist local investigators in finding out JMB's international link and whether the outlawed militant outfit had links to the attack on the British high commissioner to Bangladesh in 2004.