A Dhaka court yesterday asked the Criminal Investigation Department to submit by April 21 the probe report of a case filed in connection with the carnage at Bangladesh Rifles headquarters in Pilkhana February last year.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque passed the order after the CID’s Special Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand, also the investigation officer of the case, failed to submit the report by yesterday, the scheduled date for submission of the report.
The CID has so far arrested 2,247 soldiers of BDR and civilians including former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu and Awami League leader Torab Ali in connection with the case.
Of the arrestees, 2,161 were earlier placed on remand, and 526 of them had given confessional statements before magistrates. Of them, 177 BDR jawans and civilians had submitted petitions for retraction of their confessional statements.
At least 74 people including 57 army officers were killed in a mutiny of the border guards at their Pilkhana headquarters on February 25-26 last year.
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