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Download PDF The government has declared a part of the second floor of Chandpur deputy commissioner’s office as sub-jail to keep the top militants during trial, adding to the ongoing controversy on legal and security grounds about such a prison house in the capital.
The district election office is also under the same roof of the recently declared Chandpur sub-jail, while the district collector’s office within 20 yards and the judge court right behind the building on the same premises.
The top militants, who will be taken there during their trial, will also have to share common toilet with the officials who work in the building and visiting people.
For the sub-jail, the authorities have engaged ‘on attachment basis’ a deputy jailer and a havildar working in the district jail.
Security of the sub-jail is questioned as one of its rooms has glass windows in two walls, a big open space adjacent to its eastern wall and it is visible from the adjacent buildings.
On October 3, Abul Hashem Bakaul, 60, was killed and five others including two lawyers were injured in bomb blast at a Chandpur court.
“They [militants] are kept in luxury. They will not be tried. They may even be released,” Hashem’s son Tuhin Bakaul said at his Chandpur residence yesterday.
“What is the use of keeping them alive? They will kill more people and make more women widows,” said Hashem’s wife weeping.
Meanwhile, Superintendent-in-charge of the district jail Abul Hasanat Humayun Kabir said, “Although a public place, it [sub-jail] is close to the court and Rab [Rapid Action Battalion] men will secure it.”
Asked if there is any Rab office in the district, he said, “Rab men from Chittagong will take care of it.”
The district jail does not have the capacity to accommodate the militants, he said as a reason for declaring the sub-jail.
Assistant Public Prosecutor Salim Ullah Selim said the militants may have to stay around two months in the sub-jail for the trial for six Chandpur cases filed against 15 militants including JMB chief Abdur Rahman and his deputy Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai.
Locals have expressed concern about the security of the militants, saying that it is too open to be a jailhouse.
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