10-Truck Arms Haul
3 top officials might knew beforehand
Says prosecution witness
A prosecution witness yesterday told a Chittagong court that he thought three government high officials knew about the 10-truck arms haul way ahead of the consignment arrived in Chittagong on April 2, 2004.
The three are the then acting secretary to the industry ministry Nurul Amin, managing director of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) Md Mohsin Uddin Talukdar, and general manager (admin) KM Enamul Haq.
The witness, Mobin Hossain Khan, former assistant security officer of CUFL, said when he informed Nurul Amin of the haul on April 3, 2004, the secretary asked him not to worry and told him that the government high-ups were informed of the matter. It caused him to doubt if Nurul Amin had been aware of the haul, he told Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 in his deposition.
The same day Mobin submitted a situation report to CUFL general manager Enamul Haq but he forced him to record it as "a haul of illegal goods" other than "a haul of arms and ammunition" in the report, he said. “Later, I verbally requested my superiors to lodge a general diary on behalf of the factory but the CUFL managing director and the general manager showed their reluctance.â€
On April 2, 2004, around 1,500 wooden boxes containing guns and ammunition were seized at the CUFL jetty. Two cases were filed with Karnaphuli Police Station the next day in this connection.
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