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Cross-examination continues

Ershad sick: Court adjourned

By Staff Correspondent
The cross examination of a prosecution witness marked the resumption of the trial of deposed President Ershad at the Special Tribunal yesterday.
The accused Ershad. present at the hearing, was seen profusely perspiring as he sat In dock. He was grim and gloomy.
Prior to the resumption of the Tribunal tbe Defence Lawyer submltttd Upfflttatto Judge Mohammad Habibullah stating the health condition of his client, now being tried on charges of illegally possessing arms.
The Defence said that Ershad had been suffering’ a stomach upset and a fever since Saturday night. He prayed for a two day adjournment of the Tribunal.
Ershad was then examined in the court by a Doctor of the Central Jail who is taking care of his health round the clock.
The Judge of the Special Tribunal however decided to adjourn the court for only one day till April 9 after the cross examination of prosecution witness No 3 Tahm Hussain. Dhaka Garrison Engineer, had continued for about two hours on Sunday.
Tallm Hussain in his statement to the Tribunal said that he was a member of one of the two committees set up for the kicking and sealing of the Sena Bhaban and making an inventory of articles recovered from the place.
Defense Lawyer (DL) : Do yon know all the items which were recovered from Sena Bhaban ?
Garrison Engineer (GE) : I will know almost all the items.
DL : Without any list ?
GE: Yes.
DL : When you went for preparing the Inventory, did you take any list with you ?
GE : (taking time to think)
Judge : Did the members of the committee take any list there prior to the inventory ?
DL : Did you carry any list ?
GE : Yes, I carried a list of the goods which were supplied by the MES to the Sena Bhaban.
DL : Are there any minutes of the discussions of the inventory committee after December 12 ?
GE : There arc no minutes, but there are resolutions which may be found in the file.
DL : Is it mentioned in the resolution that Mustafizur Rahman had identified the guns?
GE : I can not remember.
DL You did mention personal' against all recovered items except against the guns. Why did you do so? Do you know everything that was found tn the house ?
GE : I am the representative of MES. I can find out almost all the Items which were supplied by the MES. But 1 have a little knowledge about other items.
DL : There Is no mention of bullets In the personal list
GE : I can tell about that if I see the list.
DL : There was no mention of bullets in the inventory list and the list of personal items had no mention about the fire arms.
GE : The list is with the inventory committee.
Judge : (with note of exclamation) Is there no mention of arms In the list ?
At this stage the Judge wanted to see the list. But he said that the said list was not that list of items recovered from the Sena Bhaban.
DL : (turning to witness) You had discussed about the arms that and had no licence 9
GE : We could not take any decision when we discussed it the first time.
DL : Was the decision Imposed from the top ?
GE : 1 don't remember.
DL : Could you take a decision within December 26 ?
GE : We took a 'decision after December 24.
DL : Do you have any minutes on the discussion ?
GE : We took decision after December 24. I can’t remember whether there was any resolution. If there was any resolution it will be with the committee.
DL : Did you take any decision resolving that these were not gifts ?
GE : We had no proof that the arms were gifts.
DL : Did you take any decision that these items were not gifts?
GE : We did not take any decision. I can't remember.
DL : Did you seek any guideline from the higher authority ?
GE : I don't know.
DL : Was there any guideline from the top bosses? At this he recited from Tagore "Whenever something is lost, wife says Kesta (pointing to Ershad) must have taken it "
GE : 1 don't know .
DL : Did you recommend lodging a case against Ershad ?
GE : No.
DL : Do you know that Ershad had deposited a weapon at the army museum ?
GE : I don't know.
Then the Defense Lawyer put suggestion before the tribunal. The suggestion was: "The witness does not know that Ershad had deposited a gun to the army museum and the eleven bullets found in the Sena Bhaban were the bullets of that gun."
Garrison Engineer Tallin Hussain did not differ with this suggestion.
After the cross-examination the witness approached Ershad In the dock to show his respect However the Attorney General Aminul Haq stopped him from talking with the accused.