BDR Carnage Case
I recognised three soldiers
Prosecution witness tells court
A prosecution witness yesterday said before a session judge's court that he identified three soldiers who were torching vehicles and carrying looted goods during the BDR carnage on February 25-26 in 2009.
In his deposition, witness Havildar Brozo Gopal also said he recognised nine other soldiers who opened blank fire and shouted angrily at the soldier line of 24 Rifle Battalion of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles (BDR), now Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
The defence counsel later cross-examined the witness.
Gopal hid himself at the guard room at central mosque in Pilkhana to save his life as soon as the mutiny erupted. From where he saw the soldiers swooped on the officers' quarters with firearms and looted valuables.
They also vandalised and torched officers' cars, Gopal said to the court, set up temporarily at the Alia Madrasa playground at the city's Bakshibazar.
Gopal, however, could not mention the type of firearms, names of cars and looted valuables while defence counsel Shameem Sardar, on behalf of sepoy Zafur Ali, cross-examined him.
The court has been adjourned till today.
A total 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed during the two-day carnage at Pilkhana headquarters in 2009.
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