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PW-30 tells court

Gopalganj CI wasn’t allowed to make 'surat hal' report
Military officers who had flown Bangabandhu's body to Tungipara took signature from police and magistrate that he was buried on an army pad also signed earlier by then President Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed, reports UNB.
Senior ASP Abdur Rahman who had signed the paper on behalf of police made the disclosure while making his deposition yesterday before Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Court us 3btb piosccuUun .vit-ness in the Bangabandhu Mur der Case.
The then Circle Inspector of Gopalganj. Rahman was refused by an army major to make a 'surat ha)' report of the body of the slain President Sheikh Mu-jibttr Rahman while he discharged his duty of an unusual burial at Bangabandhu's ancestral village Tungipara.
Now a senior Assistant Superintendent of Police at Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Dhaka, the witness said he on August 15 morning learnt through the radio announcement by Major Dalim that Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had been killed
"Al about 8 am on August 16 morning. SP of Faridpur phoned me and said body of late Mujib will be flown to Tungi-Vara. He will be buried there, ake necessary arrangement to dig the grave." the then CI of police told the court.
Rahman said he carried the message to OfTicer-in-charge of Tungipara and asked the OC to dig tne grave in the space beside the graves of Bangabandhu's parents. "I along with SDPO Nurul Alam and magistrate Abdul Kader reached Tungipara at 11 am '
"The Subdivisional Police Officer (SDPO) and magistrate stayed at the dak-bunglow and I went to the helipad." the PW said, aciding earlier he also visited and saw that the OC and one Abdul Mannan along with
others completed digging of the grave.
Rahman said he again went to the dak-bunglow and informed the SDPO everything. The SDPO asked him to distribute duty at the helipad and the witness saw many people gathering after going there.
"A helicopter came overhead at about 2 pm. but it didn't land on the helipad. Rather the helicopter was hovering over the place and someone opening a window of the copter asked us to remove all people, the ASP said, adding they did so.
The copter landed after all the people had been driven out. Immediately. 14 to 15 armed soldiers jumped out of the copter and took position on the ground. "I at their order went to them waving my hands." he said.
They told m«- here is a col-fin. Take arrangement to bring it out." Rahman said, adding police personnel and Abdul Hye Sheikh,.Sohrab Master, Akbar Gazi. Nurul Haq and Abdul Mannan, called by him. brought Out the coffin from the copter.
Later the coffin was taken to Bangabandhu s home where the grave was dug The witness and Subedar Ishaq opened the coffin and saw the chest of country’s founding father, Bangabandhu Mujib. riddled with bullets.
The index (shahadat) finger of Bangabandhu was blown off and his tendons cut that is done to make a death sure," recalled the police officer after 22 years of the assassination.
He said: "A Major saheb ordered me to bury the body as it is. But we tried to make him understand that body of a Muslim should not be buried without funeral bath, shroud and Janaza.
"Then they allowed us to finish everything within 10 minutes. 1. Rajab Sheikh and Abdul Hye Sheikh rushed to the adjacent Red Cross Hospital
and took three sarees and two 570-soaps for the rituals," Rahman said.
Later they informed an Imam of the local mosque. Abdul Halim Gazi, who advised for an ablution. The witness. Nurul Haq and Imamuddin Gazi performed the bathing and dressed Bangabandhu Mujib in the kqfan made of the hospital sarees.
"Before the ablution. I wanted to make a surat hal report of the body of Bangabandhu Mujib. But the Major didn't allow It. replying that no surat hal is necessary, said the then CI of Gopalganj police.
Recalling the burial of country's independence leader, the witness said 20 to 25 people who were present in his home com-pound attended the Janaza and we pul his body to rest beside the graves of his parents."
Rahman said: "Late Mujib was wearing a white pun/abi. a check lunqi There were spectacles. smoking pipe and a pair of ■ sandle inside his coffin. 1 gave the material to one of the relatives of Bangabandhu for depositing to the local OC.
"Later two army officers came to me with a letter written on an army pad. It was signed by Khandaker Mushtaque Ahmed designated as President. As they wanted signature on the burial. 1 and the magistrate signed it." he concluded the deposition narrating the episode of the last iournev of Mujib.