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11th PW cross-examined in Jail Killing Case

Court Correspondent
Mohammad Mocklesur Rahman, 11th prosecution witness in the jail killing case, was cross-examined yesterday at the special court set up near the Dhaka Central Jail.
After the cross-examination for about four hours by defence lawyers, Judge Ahmed Jamil Mostafa adjourned the hearing till May 28.
During the cross-examination, Mocklesur Rahman told the court that he is now working as a personal staff of the joint secretary (administration) in the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs.
"I was a personal assistant of the military secretary (Brig Mushrul Haq) to the then president. In the morning of August 15, 1975, I came to know that President Sheikh Mujibur Rahmana and most of his family members and relatives were assassinated.
"At about 3 pm on the same day, I went to my office at Bangabhaban where I saw Khondakar Mushtaque Ahmed at his office room as president.
"At that time, I saw Taheruddin Thakur, KM Obaidur Rahman, Shah Moazzem Hossain, Mahbubul Alam Chashi, Maj Farook, Maj Rashid, Maj Dalim, Maj Huda, Maj Noor, Maj Shahriar, Maj Pasha, Maj Rashed Chowdhury and Risaldar Moslem there. The army officers stayed at the Bangabhaban. Khondakar Mush-taque knew nothing but Mahbubul Alam Chashi.
"At the end of October 1975, tension was going on between the army officers staying at Banga-bhaban and political leaders over leadership. It appeared to me that their conduct could created any serious incident at any time", Rahman said.
He further told the court that on the night of November 2, 1975, he was on duty at the Bangabhaban as a personal assistant of Military Secretary Brig Mushrul Huq. At about 7:30pm on the same night, Capt Moslem came to his (witness's) office and took him to a room
on the first floor where he saw army officers Farook, Rashid, Dalim, Noor, Huda, Pasha, Mohiuddin, Sharful Hossain, Maj Shahriar, Capt Majed, Capt Khairuzzaman, Lt Nazmul, Dafadar Marfat Ali, office assistant Abul Hashem Mridha, he said.
"They were discussing about the four national leaders --Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman -detained at the Dhaka Central Jail. Maj Dalim and Maj Rashid asked me to collect telephone numbers of the Dhaka Central Jail. They were also discussing that on that night (the night of November 2) the task at the Dhaka Central Jail would be completed", the witness told the court.
"At about 9 pm, Mushrul Haq called me at his office room where I saw Taheruddin Thakur, Obaidur Rahman, Shah Moazzem, and Nurul Islam. At about 11pm I left the office. On November 3, 1975, I went to my office and came to know that Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, M Mansur Ali and AHM Quam-ruzzaman were killed in Dhaka Central Jail", the witness said.
Special public prosecutors Sirajul Haq, Anisul Haq, Quamrul Islam and Mosarraf Hossain Kajol appeared for the state while Advocates Hazi Nazrul Islam, TM Akbar, Abdul Majid Munshi, Sharfuddin Khan Mukul and Arshadul Haq appeared for the accused.
Four of the 21 accused in the jail killing case, now detained at the Dhaka Central Jail, were produced before the court during the hearing. They are Taheruddin Thakur, Lt Col (dismissed) Syed Farookur Rahman, Lt Col (Retd) Sultan Shahriar Rashid Khan and Maj (Retd) Bazlul Huda.
Four other accused -- KM Obaidur Rahman MP, Nurul Islam Manzoor, Shah Moazzem Hossain and Maj (Retd) Khairuzzaman--now on bail, were also present in the court during the hearing.