BDR Carnage Case
23 jawans on 2-day remand
Twenty three Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) jawans were placed on a two-day remand each for interrogation yesterday as the Criminal Investigation Department started fresh investigation into the BDR carnage case.
The CID earlier pressed charges against 824 accused BGB jawans on 24 charges including killing, arson and looting during the mutiny at the then BDR headquarters in Pilkhana on February 25-26 last year.
A trial court which has already started the trial proceedings, however, ordered further investigation following an appeal from the prosecution on February 3 as some names of BGB members who were involved in the carnage surfaced later.
Metropolitan Magistrate Keshab Roy Chowdhury placed them on remand after CID's Special Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand produced them before it with a two-day remand prayer.
The accused are havildar Daud Ali, lance nayeks Rezaul Karim, Jasim Uddin, Mozammel Haque, Mojibur Rahman, Mahtab Uddin, Anwar Hossain, Hasmat Zaman, Emdadul Haque, Selim Miah, Nazrul Islam, and Belayet Hossain, Islam Uddin, Yusuf Ali, and Rafiqul Islam, nayek Shah Akhter, sepoys Mohammad Salauddin, Mamun Miah, Khalilur Rahman, Jasim Uddin, and cooks Rafiqul Islam and Mojibur Rahman.
In the forwarding report, Abdul Kahar Akand, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, said the accused were involved in killing, looting and other heinous offences. So, they need to be remanded to find out vital clues about the carnage and gather more information about several others responsible for the heinous offences, the IO added.
Apart from the carnage case, CID also indicted 807 BGB persons and a civilian for blasting grenades and explosives during the carnage.
Former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and Awami League Ward unit leader Torab Ali are also accused in the carnage case.
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