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Liakat supervised Ctg arms offloading
[Bangla Daily Star] Detained former NSI deputy director (DD) Maj (retd) Liakat supervised the offloading of the consignment of 10 truckloads of illegal arms and ammunition after boarding at Hotel Golden Inn in Chittagong using a fake name two days before the arms haul, CID sources said.The hotel's register book showed that Abul Hossain from Lalbagh in Dhaka boarded room No-512 at the hotel on March 30, 2004. Sources said sergeants Alauddin and Helal Uddin, who helped seize the consignment, identified Liakat as the man who boarded the hotel introducing himself as Abul Hossain. The sergeants were summoned to the Chittagong divisional headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) where they identified Liakat on May 31. Although Liakat boarded at the hotel using a fake name, he identified himself as a NSI official before the police at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) jetty. Hafiz Uddin, one of the main accused in the case, in his confessional statement said a person named Abul Hossain boarded at the hotel and supervised the offloading of the consignment. Liakat was given the responsibility to supervise the offloading as former NSI Director (Security) Wing Commander (retd) Sahab Uddin was suspected of being a double agent, said the sources. Meantime, Sahab Uddin was placed on a fresh four-day remand yesterday. His counsel advocate Zahirul Islam filed a petition for withdrawing Sahab's confessional statement he made on May 15. Following his statement the investigators arrested former NSI chiefs Maj Gen (Retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury and Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim and ex-DD Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain. The defence lawyer in the petition claimed that the statement was obtained 'by force'. Rezzaqul and Liakat are now being quizzed at the taskforce for interrogation (TFI) cell in Dhaka. Posted by: Fred 2009-06-04 |
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