He also confessed to his involvement in the murders of police sub-inspector Shamsul Huq, Havilder Abu Bakar Siddique and Jubo Dal leader Masum.

Abdur Rahman, a 'regional leader' of Janajuddho faction of outlawed Purba Banglar Communisdt Party (PBCP), was placed on two days' remand yesterday for interrogation.

He was arrested from Daspara in Bianibazar upazila in Sylhet district on July 1 and brought to Khulna on Monday.

Sources said he told interrogators Monday night that he had fled to Sylhet two months ago along with PBCP armed cadres Yusuf and Liton in the face of operation by joint forces and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)

Abdur Rahman is wanted in connection with nine murder cases and 12 other criminal cases filed with different police stations in Khulna and Bagerhat.

He also disclosed that he had developed good relations with two JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen, Bangladesh) leaders in Bianibazar. Abdur Rahman stayed with his elder brother Abdul Halim who is Imam of Daspara Jame mosque there.

The two JMB leaders are physicians by profession, an interrogator quoted him as saying.

Abdur Rahman told police that his arms were kept in custody of a Union Parishad chairman in Rupsha upazila when he went into hiding to evade arrest.

Sub Inspector AZmol Huda of Rupsha police station who arrested the outlaw from Bianibazar said that custodians of Abdur Rahman's arms went into hiding soon after his arrest.