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| Investigators find 60 more BDR jawans involved |
| 2009-04-20 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] Sixty more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel are likely to be indicted for their alleged involvement in the February 25-26 carnage in the BDR headquarters. An official of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) tasked with the investigation said the BDR personnel are likely to be shown arrested in the mutiny case today. Seeking anonymity, the CID official said, "On the basis of our own intelligence and after scrutiny of the video footages, we identified around 60 jawans and have primarily interrogated them at Pilkhana." Meanwhile, five other BDR jawans have been taken to the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell for intensive interrogation after investigators found their active involvement in the mutiny. Two other jawans yesterday confessed to their involvement with the killings and lootings at Pilkhana during the mutiny while eleven others were placed on remand for interrogation by a Dhaka court. The court also sent sixteen jawans to jail after they were produced before it in the case primarily filed with Lalbagh police station and later shifted to New Market Police Station. Another investigator said the five taken to TFI for interrogation were directly found to be involved in the mutiny. "We expect to get important information from them," he added. Our Court Correspondent adds: Two more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans -- sepoys Mohammad Rajib and Rian Ahmed -- made statements yesterday confessing their involvement in the killings and lootings at Pilkhana. Metropolitan Magistrates Julfikar Hayat and Tofael Hassan recorded statements of sepoys Mohammad Rajib and Rian Ahmed after the investigation officer of the case produced them before the court. After recording their statements, the two were sent to jail. Meanwhile, a metropolitan magistrate court placed seven jawans on five days remand and five others on four days remand each for interrogation in the case. The jawans facing a five-day remand are sepoys Abdur Rashid, Abdur Rashid (2), Habibur Rahman, Habib Ullah, Suman Miah, Suman Mollah and Mintu Sheikh while subedar Ramendra Nath Bishwas, Lance Nayek Shariful Islam, sepoys Syed Anwar Hossain and Zikrul Haque were remanded for four-day each. Thirty-nine jawans and civilians, including yesterday's two, have so far given confessional statements on different dates. A total of around 1,050 jawans and civilians are now shown arrested in the mutiny case. |
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