The two members of the banned Harkatul Jihad (Huji), who were placed on remand on Sunday in connection with the grenade attack on the British high commissioner, gave confessional statements yesterday.
"Owwww! Y'got nuttin' on us, coppers!"
"Well fine, then! We'll just have to take you out to recover your hidden arms cache!"
"I confess. We dunnit." |
In the statement given before Magistrate Nur-e-Alam Siddiqui, Sharif Sahedul and Delwar Hossain Ripon admitted their involvement with the grenade attack on the British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury in 2004.
"Really. It wuz us! We din't have no accomplices!"
"Yeah! There ain't no hidden arms cache!" |
They also confessed that they were involved with the bomb attacks on Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran and former Awami League lawmaker Syeda Zebunnesa Haque.
"We kilt Jon-Benet, too!"
"I wuz the second gunman on the grassy knoll!" |
Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Munshi Atiqur Rahman told The Daily Star yesterday that the accused had admitted their complicity in four bomb attacks. He said the criminals also named two other men who were involved in the heinous acts.
"Yeah! It wuz Mahmoud that kidnapped Judge Crater!"
"And Ahmed what kidnapped the Lindberg kid!" |
The court sent them to Sylhet Central Jail.
| "We framed Sacco and Vanzetti, too!" |
On Sunday, following a remand prayer by the CID, a Sylhet court placed the two on a five-day remand. With this, the investigators were able to have them on remand for a total of 45 days. |