10-Truck Arms Haul Cases
PW denies giving false statement
A prosecution witness (PW) in the 10-truck arms haul cases yesterday denied that he gave false statement against one of the accused, KM Enamul Haq, the then general manger (admin) of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL).
The witness, Mobin Hossain Khan, former assistant security officer of CUFL, refuted the defence's claim during his cross examination before Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 in Chittagong.
He also denied that he did not mention in his earlier confessional statement that he thought the then CUFL general manager Enamul Haq and then CUFL managing director Md Mohsin Uddin Talukdar, another accused in the case, were "involved in the arms haul".
Mobin said he told the investigation officers and the magistrates everything about what he saw, but he did not know whether they included all the facts as he neither did read his written statement nor see it.
The counsels of Enamul Haq and Mohsin Uddin Talukdar cross-examined Mobin for two hours and a half. The court adjourned its proceedings till today after completing the cross-examination.
On April 2, 2004, around 1,500 wooden boxes containing submachine guns, AK-47 assault rifles, submachine carbines, Chinese pistols, rocket shells and launchers, hand grenades and bullets were seized from two vessels at the jetty of CUFL.
Two cases were filed the next day with Karnaphuli Police Station. Trial in the cases got underway on November 29, 2011.
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