Five more soldiers of Bangladesh Rifles made their confessional statements to the chief metropolitan magistrateÂ’s court in Dhaka on Sunday in connection with the February 25-26 carnage at the BDR headquarters at Pilkhana in the city. The criminal investigation department of police, assigned to investigate the case filed with New Market police station, produced the five soldiers before five separate metropolitan magistrateÂ’s courts in the afternoon. After recording their statements, the courts sent the soldiers to Dhaka Central Jail at about 8:30pm, court sources said.| They'll have their cardiac arrests and cirrhosis recorded very soon now ... |
Two more soldiers, deputy assistant director Touhidul Islam and Habibur Rahman, were produced before the court of metropolitan magistrate Mominul Hasan on Sunday afternoon after the end of their eight-day remand on the previous day in connection with arms recovery case filed with Sabujbagh police station. Police sought further five-day remand for them but the court granted three days for interrogation.
Police, meanwhile, produced another person, Abdul Hamid, a retired BDR solider, before the same court with a plea to show him arrested in connection with BDR rebellion and sought a 10-day remand for him. After hearing, the court granted five days remand for Abdul Hamid.
A total of 1,419 people, most of them soldiers, have so far been arrested in connection with the BDR rebellion at Pilkhana headquarters and 114 of them, including three civilians, have so far made their confessional statements to the court. A total of 150 people are now on remand under the custody of CID police in Dhaka.
Outside the capital, a total of 1,723 soldiers have so far been arrested in 30 districts for their suspected involvement in the rebellion at their respective battalions and sector headquarters.