Grenade Attack Case
Plan hatched at Pintu's house
Says CID official
Defence lawyer for BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu yesterday for the second day continued cross-examination of a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) official in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case.
In response to a question, the CID official Abu Hena Md Yusuf, also the investigation officer (IO) of Ramna Batamul blast cases, said Harkatul Jihad (Huji) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan told him that a meeting was held among Hannan, Pintu, Huji leader Moulana Tajuddin, who is a brother of Pintu, and other Huji leaders and activists at Pintu's Dhanmondi residence to work out the plot of carrying out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue.
Yusuf recorded the statements in writing during the investigation of Ramna Batamul blast cases.
He submitted the written statement to his superiors -- the then additional inspector general of police Khoda Baksh Chowdhury, CID special superintendent of police Ruhul Amin and ASP Munshi Atiqur Rahman.
The high-ups got upset with the CID official, as he included information on the August 21 grenade attack in his written statement. They directed Yusuf to drop it from the statement and record a confessional statement of Hannan.
Yusuf dropped the information from the statement. Hannan later made a confessional statement to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court but he did not mention anything about the grenade attack, Yusuf said.
Judge Shahed Nuruddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 fixed August 5 for the next hearing. The witness will be again cross-examined on that day.
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