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Pintu held over BDR mutiny
[Bangla Daily Star] Detective Branch (DB) of Police today arrested former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu at the High Court ground in connection with the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR)'s mutiny on February 25-26.The DB personnel picked him up around 5:15pm while he was coming out of the HC, witnesses said. Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of DB (south), confirmed the arrest adding that they made the arrest following the requisition from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the case. "The former lawmaker was arrested in connection with the BDR carnage and now is under our custody," he added.
But the higher court declined to pass any order on the petition. After hearing the petition, the HC told the petitioner's lawyer Advocate Khandker Mahbub Hossain that this bench is reluctant to pass any order on this petition and asked him (Khandker) to move it to another bench. The lawyer then took back the petition from that bench of the HC. During the hearing of the petition, Khandker Mahbub Hossain told the court that the law enforcers are raiding the residence of his client and looking for him. The law enforcers can harass and arrest Pintu at any time without any specific case. Khandker Mahbub Hossain told The Daily Star that Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu, who was present in the High Court during the hearing of his petition, has been arrested on the High Court premises and it is unfortunate and unprecedented. "The law enforcers have arrested Pintu outside of the High Court compound. They (law enforcers) have violated the sanctity of the Supreme Court by arresting him on the court premises," he said. Mahbub Hossain also alleged that the law enforcers in plain cloths have halted his private car and looked for Pintu in the car at the main gate of the Supreme Court premises around 4:30pm. He also informed that he had planned to move the petition of Pintu to another bench of the High Court tomorrow, but the petition has become ineffective following the arrest. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-03 |
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