BDR Mutiny Trial
Baset again shows arrogance
Six witnesses give depositions
Accused BGB mutineer Sepoy Baset again showed arrogance and made offensive remarks at a BGB special court yesterday, nearly two months after his conviction for contempt of court.
The Special Court-7 on December 1 last year awarded Baset six months’ imprisonment for his crude remarks before the court.
Baset behaved arrogantly again before the same court yesterday during the cross-examination of Head Clerk Abdul Mannan, a witness in a case filed in connection with the mutiny at the BGB Pilkhana headquarters.
The court headed by BGB Director General Maj Gen Md Rafiqul Islam at the Darbar Hall of BGB Pilkhana headquarters is trying 637 accused mutineers of 24 Rifle Battalion and Rifles Security Unit.
Six witnesses gave depositions. They were cross-examined by 61 accused. The court was adjourned till 9:00am on February 10.
During the cross-examination, Baset suddenly started clapping, and shouted at the witness, “Well-done, Well-done.” The court asked Baset to sit and calm down.
But he did not pay heed to it. “You cannot silence me. I have the right to speak. You are disgracing the chair of the judge,” he said.
He called the witness a traitor and said, “This is not a special court. It is a special package.”
The court warned him again, and told him that he would be allowed to speak if he refrained from talking nonsense. But he spoke rudely once again.
DG Rafiqul ordered the on-duty security personnel to take him to the back row on the dock. “You have tainted the history,” said Baset while being dragged to the back.
Later prosecutor Maj Khan Md Alauddin told journalists that he has appealed to the court to take action against Baset.
“The matter rests with the court. I cannot say anything before court decides on the issue,” he said.
Raifqul told the accused BGB mutineers that the BGB Act had been passed on December 20 and “from now on, the court will try every offence according to the new BGB Act.”
Seventy-four people, including the then BDR director general and 56 army officers, were massacred at the Pilkhana headquarters between February 25 and 26, 2009.
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