Twenty-four more members of the Bangladesh Rifles arrested earlier in connection with the February 25-26 BDR rebellion case were ordered by a Dhaka court to be sent to jail on Saturday. Of the members, havilder Jalal Uddin in the court of metropolitan magistrate Mominul Hasan admitted to his involvement in the rebellion that killed 61 army officers.The court of metropolitan magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque also remanded four people — sepoys Jasim Uddin, Masum Miah, Mizanur Rahman and Rafiqul Islam — afresh for four days for interrogation in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department.
CIDÂ’s assistant superintendent of police Abdul Kahhar Akand, also investigation officer of the case, produced 15 members in the court after completion of their remand and sought a fresh seven-day remand for four members for further interrogation. The rest of the 13 were brought to the court from the Newmarket police station where they were detained since Friday. Magistrate Emdadul Haque passed an order to send the 13 to jail after they were shown arrested in the rebellion case.
With the latest arrest, a total of 1,028 people, mostly BDR members, have so far been arrested in the rebellion case. Of them, 30 people made confessional statement to the magistrates.