Dissent leaflets found 4 days prior mutiny
Says seventh witness
Four days before the BDR carnage, some leaflets carrying different demands of the jawans were found pinned to the walls of the BDR headquarters in Pilkhana, the seventh witness told a court yesterday.
Afterwards, 11 officials of major rank put 24-hour guard at the quarter guards, said the witness, Major Tareq Mohammad Bhawali, who was at that time an official of 45 Rifle Battalion in Mymensingh.
He later got to know that the leaflets were composed at Prim Coaching Centre of one Zakir and sepoys Selim Reza and Moin and Lance Nayek Ekram were involved in printing it, claimed Tareq.
He was outside the headquarters on official duty when the mutiny broke out in the morning of February 25, 2009, added Tareq.
After Tareq's deposition, the makeshift Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, Dhaka adjourned the proceedings till December 5.
Earlier, one of the accused, Deputy Assistant Director Mirza Habibur Rahman Khan, cross-examined the sixth witness, Major Razaul Mostafa Md Asad-ud-Doula.
Habibur claimed that a section of army men, involved in the mutiny, were giving “false depositions” to convict the accused.
He asked the witness whether he knew that the then director general of Ansar Maj Gen ATM Amin was caught entering Pilkhana with a firearm. The witness replied in the negative.
The carnage at the headquarters of BDR, now Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), claimed 74 lives, including 57 army officers.
The court will continue its proceedings during the month-long annual vacation beginning today.
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