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Charge-framing now on July 12

9 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

A Sylhet court yesterday deferred charge-framing against 57 BDR personnel in a sedition case to July 12. District and Sessions Judge Md Momin Ullah fixed the date as public prosecutor prayed for time extension. The judge also fixed the same date for hearing the bail petitions of the accused, court sources said. All the 57 BDR men of 38 Battalion, accused of staging mutiny at their battalion headquarters in Sylhet following Pilkhana 'revolt', were produced in the court. Public Prosecutor Misbahuddin Siraj said, “We have sought time for preparing the records of the sensational case so that charges against the accused can be framed rightly”. Earlier, the chief judicial magistrate had sent the case records of two sedition cases--one against 57 and the other against 51--to the district and sessions judge to start trial process. Officer- in-charge (OC) of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Syeduzzaman filed three sedition cases with the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on 17 May against 142 BDR men of Sylhet Sector Headquarters and two battalions. Of them, 51 are from 21 Battalion, 57 from 38 Battalion and the rest from Sector Headquarters.