Jahangir Alam alias Rajib Gandhi, a top Neo JMB leader and the mastermind of the Gulshan terror attack, reportedly confessed to his part in the killing of three people before a Gaibandha court on Monday.

Senior Judicial Magistrate Joynal Abedin recorded his statement when he told the court about his involvement in other criminal activities, including abduction, looting, polygamy, after joining the militant group, reports UNB.

Meanwhile, the court also placed him on a five-day police custody for quizzing when Saidur Rahman, inspector of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), sought five-day remand to get more information about militant attacks.

A Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) team in a drive arrested Rajib from Elenga bus stand area of Tangail on the night of January 13 last.

Twenty hostages, including 17 foreign nationals, were killed by militants at Holey Artisan Bakery in Gulshan area of the capital on July 1 last year. The following day, five attackers and one suspected associate of the attackers were killed during a commando operation inside the café, ending the hostage crisis.