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617 more BDR soldiers held in stir
Law enforcers on Monday arrested 617 more Bangladesh Rifles soldiers in 11 districts in connection with rebellion at their battalion and sector headquarters on the second day of the February 25-26 mutiny at the border guards’ Dhaka headquarters.

Of them, 106 soldiers were arrested at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar, 93 in Rajshahi, 78 in Khagrachhari, 72 in Netrakona, 49 in Mymen-singh, 44 in Jamalpur, 54 in Naogaon, 43 in Moulvi-bazar, 30 in Chapainawab-ganj, 25 in Thakurgaon and 23 in Sunamganj.

In Teknaf, the BDR members were arrested at the sector headquarters of 42 Rifles Battalion in the morning. In Rajshahi, a joint team of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion arrested 65 rebellion suspects at 37 Rifles Battalion and 28 at sector sadar. In Khagrachhari, the police arrested 78 suspected BDR members at two different sectors in a sedition case. In Jamalpur, the police arrested the suspected rebels from the sector headquarters of 6 Riffles Battalion in the morning in a sedition case.

All the soldiers were produced in the respective courts from where they were sent to the jail on Monday.

So far, a total of 1,665 soldiers have been arrested in 35 sedition cases in 30 districts.

In Dhaka, seven more soldiers made their confessional statements in the chief metropolitan magistrate court on Monday. After recording their statements, the soldiers were sent to Dhaka Central Jail in the evening.

The Criminal Investigation Department of police, assigned to investigate the BDR carnage case, produced 47 other soldiers in the CMM court on Monday afternoon. The CID sought seven-day remand for deputy assistant director Touhidul Alam – the main suspect, and 10-day for 46 others after producing them in the court of metropolitan magistrate Muminul Hasan.

With the latest, a total of 195 people are now on remand in the CID police custody.

The lawmen have so far arrested 1,386 people, mostly soldiers, in connection with the case filed with New Market police station and 85 of them, including three civilians, made their confessional statements in the court.
Posted by: Steve White 2009-05-19
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