The government doubled the amount of bounty for tipping off the whereabouts of the absconders involved in the February 25-26 carnage at the BDR headquarters in which the entire command of the border force was eliminated.A sum of Tk 100,000 will be given in cash award if anyone can help the local thana or any law-enforcing agency in arresting any of the absconding BDR members involved in the February 25-26 brutal incident at Peelkhana BDR headquarters," an official of the Home Ministry said about the latest government decision. Earlier on April 7, the government had put a bounty of Tk 50,000 on each head of the runaways for their arrest.
"The name and identity of the informer will remain a secret," said senior information officer of the Home Ministry Md Shahinoor Miah.
The February 25-26 mutiny and mayhem inside the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters left a total of 75 people dead, 57 of them army officers in command of the border guards, including their chief Major Gen Shakil Ahmed. Among the rest are two family members of army officers, 9 BDR jawans and 7 civilians.Several thousand soldiers and their lower-ranked commanders fled the headquarters as well as some outer stations. Most of them have been run in while a few hundred others remained on the run.
Meanwhile, thirty BDR personnel accused in mutiny case were yesterday produced before the judicial magistrate court that ordered them to jail. Fifteen of them pleaded for bail but magistrate Basudev Roy rejected their petitions.
The magistrate ordered to transfer the case to the District and Sessions Judge's court for trial.
Police arrested the 30 BDR personnel from 39 Riffle Battalion following a case filed by officer-in-charge of sadar thana on charge of mutiny in the battalion.
Some 3,000 BDR personnel have been taken into custody from different parts of the country after the February 25-26 Peelkhana incident when nearly 80 people, including 57 Army officers were killed.