Monday, August 1, 2011
Beginning the trial into the sensational arms seizure incident around 11:25am, Judge Golam Sarwar of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 heard the bail petitions of six accused.
The court, which was continuing its proceedings till filing of this report at 12:45pm, is expected to pass orders on the bail prayers later in the day.
Before the court proceedings started, the 11, including nine newly charge-sheeted, accused were produced before the court in the morning.
After three and a half years' further investigation, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on June 26 submitted two supplementary charge sheets in two cases pressing charges against 11 new suspects including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.
Two cases were filed -- one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act -- a day after 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition were seized at a jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) in the port city on April 2, 2004.
Of the new accused, six were taken to the Chittagong Central Jail from different jails of the country Saturday night.
They are: Babar, Nizami, former director general (DG) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, the then director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, former NSI director Wing Commander (retd) Shahab Uddin and former deputy director of NSI Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain.
Three other accused -- former managing director of CUFL Mohsin Talukder, former CUFL general manager (admin) Enamul Hoque and former NSI field officer Akbar Hossain Khan--are now at Chittagong jail while two others--Paresh Barua and former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin--are absconding.
With submission of the supplementary charge sheets, the number of total accused stood at 52 in the case filed for smuggling the firearms and 50 in the other case filed under the arms act.
Among the previously accused, Hafizur Rahman and Deen Mohammad are now in Chittagong jail while six remain absconding and others are on bail, said Md Muniruzzaman, investigation officer of the cases.
On June 29, acting Judge of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 Golam Sarwar took the supplementary charge sheets into cognisance during a hearing for this purpose.
The court also fixed today for producing all the accused in the cases before the court.
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Eleven accused including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami were produced before a Chittagong court Monday as it began the hearing into two cases filed in connection with 10-truck arms haul.Beginning the trial into the sensational arms seizure incident around 11:25am, Judge Golam Sarwar of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 heard the bail petitions of six accused.
The court, which was continuing its proceedings till filing of this report at 12:45pm, is expected to pass orders on the bail prayers later in the day.
Before the court proceedings started, the 11, including nine newly charge-sheeted, accused were produced before the court in the morning.
After three and a half years' further investigation, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on June 26 submitted two supplementary charge sheets in two cases pressing charges against 11 new suspects including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami chief Motiur Rahman Nizami.
Two cases were filed -- one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act -- a day after 10 truckloads of arms and ammunition were seized at a jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) in the port city on April 2, 2004.
Of the new accused, six were taken to the Chittagong Central Jail from different jails of the country Saturday night.
They are: Babar, Nizami, former director general (DG) of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, the then director of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury, former NSI director Wing Commander (retd) Shahab Uddin and former deputy director of NSI Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain.
Three other accused -- former managing director of CUFL Mohsin Talukder, former CUFL general manager (admin) Enamul Hoque and former NSI field officer Akbar Hossain Khan--are now at Chittagong jail while two others--Paresh Barua and former additional secretary of industries ministry Nurul Amin--are absconding.
With submission of the supplementary charge sheets, the number of total accused stood at 52 in the case filed for smuggling the firearms and 50 in the other case filed under the arms act.
Among the previously accused, Hafizur Rahman and Deen Mohammad are now in Chittagong jail while six remain absconding and others are on bail, said Md Muniruzzaman, investigation officer of the cases.
On June 29, acting Judge of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 Golam Sarwar took the supplementary charge sheets into cognisance during a hearing for this purpose.
The court also fixed today for producing all the accused in the cases before the court.
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