'Bangla Bro') (1970 – 30 March 2007), was a Bangladeshi jihadist[1] and the military commander of the Al Qaeda affiliated[2] radical Islamist organization Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh (lit.
"[3] He joined JMJB (Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh) and rose to the rank of administrator of military affairs and an acting member of the Majlis-e-Sura, its main decision making board of trustees.
[4] The Government of Bangladesh broadcast a ৳5,000,000 reward for the catch of Bangla Bhai or information about his whereabouts, which would supposedly lead to his capture.
The Rapid Action Battalion intelligence unit and RAB-9 raced to Mymensingh in the early hours of 6 March 2006 and caught Bangla Bhai's wife Fahima and minor child Saad from a house on Ram Krishna Mission Road in Mymensingh town at around 5:00 am.
Acting on information obtained from his wife, the RAB men commanded by its intelligence wings head Lt Colonel Gulzar Uddin Ahmed encompassed the place of a town Doctor Umed Ali at Rampur in Muktagachha, 30 kilometers off Mymensingh, at around 7:00 am and began looking for Bangla Bhai.
As RAB Sergeant Rafiq, who was posted in a contiguous tin-roofed house, attempted to peep into the space to see who were inside, Bangla Bhai shot him once in the head.
Bangla Bhai's bodyguard Masud was discovered lying on the floor, he was badly injured from the blast.
The merry group remained on the housetops of houses, trees and both sides of the street as the injured Bangla Bhai was being taken to the hospital.
Judge Mohammad Rezaul Islam of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 passed on the sentence in vicinity of the convicts.