Meantime, the Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) is now quizzing Bangla Bhai about the source of funds and explosives, and whereabouts of the JMB cadres still evading arrest.

Sources said apart from gleaning information on those points from the JMB operations commander, the interrogators are verifying the information in this regard earlier given by other top JMB leaders including Abdur Rahman, Ataur Rahman Sunny, Abdul Awal and Hafez Mahmud.

The interrogators are yet to bring Bangla Bhai face to face with Rahman and other top JMB leaders. They will do this later to find out the missing links in the information gathered from the militant kingpins.

The sources however declined to disclose the information given by Bangla Bhai for the sake of investigation.

When contacted, Director General of Rab (Rapid Action Battalion) MA Aziz Sarkar said last night they are just quizzing Bangla Bhai to gather information which will help Rab launch operation to arrest the absconding JMB members.

Our Barisal correspondent reports: Senior ASP of CID (Criminal Investigation Department) Munshi Atiqur Rahman, also investigation officer (IO) of the November 14 killings, submitted charge sheet to a first class magistrate's court in Jhalakathi yesterday.

The seven other chargesheeted JMB leaders are its military commander Ataur Rahman Sunny, Amjad alias Khaled Saifullah, Abdul Awal, assassin Iftekhar Hasan Al Mamun alias Shihab, Shakil alias Mollah Omar, Sultan Hossain Khan of Krisnakati of Jhalakathi and Asadul alias Arif of Barguna.

Of them, Khaled Saifullah and Asadul alias Arif were tried in absentia in the bomb blast case filed in this connection while Mollah Omar was killed during a skirmish with Rab in Comilla on March 13.

Assistant Judges Sohel Ahmed and Jagannath Pandey were bombed to death in a suicide attack in Jhalakathi on their way to office in a microbus.

About Molla Omar, the IO said evidence proved his role in the crimes and now it is up to the court to exempt him from charges since he is already dead.

The charge sheet was based mainly on the confessional statements of assassin Mamun, Awal and Sunny, eyewitnesses and circumstantial evidence, he said.

Names of Meraz, Mehedi, Talha, Mahmud may be included in a supplementary charge sheet as their real names and addresses and whereabouts are yet to be confirmed, he added.

During investigation, the IO recorded statements of 52 prosecution witnesses including Pallabi Pandey, widow of judge Jagonnath Pandey, Sultan Hossain, driver of the blown up microbus, Mannan and Badsha, injured in the blast.

Earlier, a speedy trial tribunal in Barisal awarded 40 years' rigorous imprisonment to Mamun, Bangla Bhai, Abdur Rahman, Awal, Sani, Molla Omar and Amjad in the bomb blast case.

Our Sirajganj correspondent adds: Detective police arrested two suspected JMB members in Charia Uzir village of Raiganj upazila in the district on Wednesday night.

The arrestees are Abdul Matin, 25, of Gouripur village in Mymensingh and Tariqul Islam, 27, of Charia Uzir village.