Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009A special court of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday fixed January 24 next year for framing charges against 62 accused BDR men in a mutiny case of the district.The court also adjourned the trial proceedings till the date.The Bangladesh Rifles Special Court-3 led by its Director General Maj Gen Mainul Islam fixed the date during the proceedings of the case.The 62 BDR men were taken to the 19 Rifle Battalion Headquarters at 8:30 am and produced before the court.During the 30 minutes proceedings that started at about 10:00am, Prosecutor Lt Col Gazi Mohammad Salauddin, also the commanding officer of the battalion, ...
(read more) Monday, December 21st, 2009The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Special Court-3 in Feni adjourned till today its mutiny trial of 62 soldiers of 19 Rifle Battalion Headquarters under the Comilla Sector for their alleged involvement in the incident.The court set 10:00am to resume its proceedings.At the outset of the trial on first day, a three-member court led by BDR Director General Maj Gen M Mainul Islam and including Lt Col Akhtaruzzaman and Maj Maksudul Alam of the Comilla sector, read out a statement of accusation.The accused BDR men were not put on the dock yesterday but would be brought today.They are allowed to take assistance ...
(read more) Friday, May 15th, 2009Mainly the pent-up grievances among the BDR rank and file over many issues, including Operation Dal Bhat, inside the BDR led to the Pilkhana carnage, according to sources.The carnage at BDR headquarters on February 25-26 left 74 people dead including 57 army officers.Sources involved in the army investigation said there were no conclusive findings of external parties plotting the carnage. Analysing the incident it was perceived that some external parties might have used the soldiers' grievances to serve their own interest.The 20-member army probe committee headed by Lt Gen Jahangir Alam Chowdhury submitted the report to army chief General Moeen ...
(read more) Thursday, May 14th, 2009Fifty more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) jawans were placed on a five-day remand each for mutiny at Pilkhana headquarters while 100 more suspected BDR mutineers were arrested at Cox's Bazar battalion headquarters yesterday.The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka issued the order of remand after the Criminal Investigation Department, which is investigating the case, produced the BDR jawans before it with a prayer for seven days' remand for each of them.Meanwhile, the 20-member army probe committee on BDR carnage submitted its report to the Chief of Army Staff General Moeen U Ahmed on Sunday without making any official announcement for public ...
(read more) Tuesday, May 12th, 2009About 200 suspected BDR rebels were arrested from different sectors, battalions and camps in seven northern districts yesterday as the police started filing sedition cases against the border troops across the country for staging February 25-26 mutiny.Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) assisted by army personnel arrested suspected mutineers from different BDR units as courts concerned issued warrant against them following filing of the cases.Later police hauled the BDR jawans before the courts in the districts concerned which ordered to send them to jails.Meanwhile, a Dhaka court placed 37 suspected BDR mutineers on a five-day remand each yesterday in connection ...
(read more) Monday, May 11th, 2009The government probe committee formed to investigate BDR rebellion and massacre of army officers at Pilkhana BDR headquarters may take a few more days to submit its report, the deadline for which expires today."We are very close to finalising the report and it may take three to four more days to complete," a member of the probe committee told The Daily Star yesterday.Requesting not to be named, he said they have investigated the incident in details. He, however, refused to disclose any probe findings.The committee headed by retired bureaucrat Anisuzzaman Khan was given a month's time as it sought time ...
(read more) Thursday, April 23rd, 2009BDR jawans have taken positions at the bank of Naaf river in Palongkhali union of Ukhiya upazila as Myanmar border force Nasaka again started erecting earth embankment within 80 yards of the zero point.The Nasaka has deployed 300 workers to build the embankment without consultation with Bangladesh government though they stopped the work yesterday following a protest from BDR.BDR officials claimed that Nasaka has stopped their work while they blew whistle and showed red flags.But the local people yesterday said, Nasaka did not stop their work. Few days back, Nasaka built around 300 feet of the embankment, they said.On last ...
(read more) Friday, April 17th, 2009Yet another BDR jawan died in custody yesterday.Havilder Kazi Saidur Rahman, 46, of 13 Battalion, arrested in connection with the February 25-26 BDR carnage, was the 13th jawan to die in custody.Meanwhile, 73 BDR men, 48 from Kushtia and 25 from Netrakona, were taken to the BDR headquarters yesterday for quizzing in connection with the carnage that left 75 people dead.Besides, 20 more BDR men were placed on a seven-day remand each while one BDR jawan confessed his involvement in the carnage to a magistrate.BDR Director General Maj Gen Mainul Islam told The Daily Star, "Saidur died of cardiac arrest ...
(read more) Saturday, April 11th, 2009Six more members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) yesterday confessed to their involvement in the February 25-26 Pilkhana carnage before magistrates.Metropolitan magistrates Rashedul Kabir and Dilara Alo Chandana recorded the confessional statements of the six.Meanwhile, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested 15 more BDR members in connection with the case yesterday.Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand of CID said all the 15 BDR jawans were arrested at Pilkhana for their alleged involvement in the bloodbath.With yesterday's arrest, the number of arrestees rose to 1028 while 31 of them made confessional statements.Besides, 190 BDR members so far have been placed ...
(read more) Friday, April 3rd, 2009Around 800 mutineers of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and outsiders were produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Dhaka in connection with the Philkhana mutiny case, disrupting trial proceedings of most the courts throughout the day yesterday.This is for the first time such a large number of accused were produced before a Dhaka court in a case and it has broken the record in Bangladesh.Meantime, the CMM Court asked the officer (IO) of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit probe report of the case by May 12.The accused were produced before eight magistrates at different times since 9:30am and ...
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