[Bangla Daily Star] Five more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans yesterday confessed to magistrates that they were involved in the February 25-26 mutiny in the BDR headquarters.Meantime, a Dhaka court placed 24 BDR jawans and a civilian on a five-day remand for each to interrogate about the carnage.
Besides, 45 more jawans were shown arrested in the mutiny case and they were sent to jail after being produced before the court yesterday. Apart from them, Rab at Pilkhana headquarters arrested eight more BDR men yesterday.
The jawans who made confessional statements under the section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) are havildar Yusuf Ali, Abu Taher, sepoys Nafiul Kazi, Alim Reza and Shafuil Azam.
Following a petition submitted by investigation officer (IO) of the case Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abdul Kahar Akand of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), metropolitan magistrates Tofail Hasan, Zulfikar Hayat, Abdur Rahim and AKM Emdadul Haque recorded their statements.
After recording statements, the five accused were sent to jail. With yesterday's tally, a total of 19 BDR jawans made confessional statements in connection with the case.
Metropolitan magistrate Faisal Atiq Bin Kader placed 24 BDR jawans and a civilian on a five-day remand for each after the IO prayed for 10-day remand.
The jawans, nayek subedar Monoranjan Sarkar, havildar Momin Ali, lance nayek Badsha Alam, nayeks Abu Sayeed, Abul Kalam, sepoys Iqbal Hossain, Shahjahan Ali, Abdur Razzak, Masud Rana, Mohammad Mizan, Mojibur Rahman, Hadiul Islam, Jalal Uddin, Bulbul Hossain, Mohaddes Kazi, Tarapada Mondol, Mohammad Zia, Shafiqul Islam, Shahjahan, Jahangir Aalm, Alam Ali, Abdur Rashid, Abdul Hossain, Akhter Hossain, and a civilian Abdullah Al Mamun are placed on remand.
A total of 155 BDR jawans have been placed on remand so far in the case.
Moreover, a total of 851 BDR jawans had been shown arrested in the case after it was filed with Lalbagh Police Station on February 28.
Meanwhile, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested eight suspected BDR mutineers at BDR headquarters.
The were identified as Nayek Sheikh Mohammad Shahidur Rahman, Sepoys Sri Pulak Kanti Mallik, Mohammad Obaidul Islam, Zakir Hossain, Mohammad Rien Ahmed, Mohammad Rajibul Hasan, Mohammad Fazlur Rahman and Mohammad Rofiqul Islam.
Rab sources last night said they were preparing to hand them over to Lalbagh Police Station.