Related: Bangladeshi Islamist extremist leader Shaikh Rahman surrenders    

    DHAKA, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Chief of banned Islamist extremist group Shaikh Abdur Rahman and his three accomplices, who surrendered to security forces Thursday morning at northeastern Sylet town ending the 31-hour arrest drama, is being brought to Bangladesh capital believed for interrogation.

    Most wanted Rahman, also an Afghan war veteran, surrendered to security forces and is being brought to Dhaka amid tight security by road, private television channel NTV reported.

    His nine family members, who surrendered to security forces Wednesday afternoon, are also being brought to Dhaka.

    Before leaving Sylhet, Rahman was produced before a magistrate court and the court granted 10-day police remand during which police will interrogate him. The court also ordered not to oppressthe children and women members of Rahman's family.

    Shaikh Rahman has already been convicted by a southern Barisal court, which punished him life in prison for killing two judges ina suicide attack.

    The judges were killed on Nov. 14 in the first suicide attack in the country by militants of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) led by Rahman.

    The government made several desperate attempts to arrest Rahmansince the first countrywide bombings on Aug. 17 last year, but failed.

    Last month, the security forces cordoned off a 10 km area in western Kushtia district acting on information that he was holdinga meeting there. The security forces searched door-to-door, but did not find Rahman.

    State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar earlier said the JMB had a 200-member strong suicide quad, who made some attacks late last year on courts and judges killing 28 people, including judges, lawyers and police.

    Leaflets found in blasts sites said JMB wants to establish Islamic rule in Bangladesh, the second largest Muslim country. They attacked judges and courts because the group considered the courts are the stumbling blocks in their way to establish Islamic rule.

    The spiritual leader Rahman, born in northern Jamalpur district,about 200 km north of Dhaka and aged around 50, joined politics of Islami Chattra Shibir, the student wing of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami and then Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest religious partner of the four-party alliance government of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP).

    Intelligence agencies of Bangladesh believe the mystery behind the rise of militancy, spreading of its network and links both inside and outside Bangladesh could be revealed only after Rahman is arrested. Enditem