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Ctg Arms Haul

Supplier of truck held

Staff Correspondent
Mohammad Yakub, one of the five prime accused in the sensational Chittagong arms and ammunition haul case, was arrested from Mirpur in the capital in the early hours yesterday. The arrestee might be sent to the Joint Interrogation Cell for quizzing, police said
Yakub, vice-president of the Bangladesh Road Transport Federation, allegedly supplied the trucks used in the smuggling of the arms and ammunition and was absconding since the largest ever ammo haul in the country in April last yearfrom Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL).
The 10 truckloads of heavy arms and ammunition included 4,930 firearms, 27,020 hand grenades, 840 rockets, 300 accessories of rocket launchers, 2,000 grenade launching tubes, 6,329 magazines and 11,40,520 bullets stuffed in wooden boxes.
Tipped off, a three-member team from the Mirpur Police Station raided a house at Lalkuthi in Mirpur owned by timber trader Mohammad Nasiruddin and arrested Yakub, 53, atabout4:00am.
Yakub used to visit the house -Habib Manjil- as he and Nasir are followers of the same 'peer' (spiritual guide), police said.
Yakub, also general secretary of the Truck Sramik Union, is also wanted in two other cases filed with Karnaphuli Police Station in Chittagong under the Arms Act and the Special PowersAct.
Talking to newsmen at the police station yesterday morning, Yakub pleaded not guilty although police identified him as an arms peddler and smuggler.
The accused hinted that a good lead to the case will be found if it is looked into how the crane used to handle the arms and ammo was taken to the CUFL jetty and who took it there.
He also said he was thinking of surrendering to the Chittagong Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court on March 22 during a scheduled hearing of the case.
Yakub, who hails from East Bakhail of Potia upazila in Chittagong, said he began his career as a truck helper.
Three other accused in the ammo haul case surrendered to the Court of Chief Metropilitan Magistrate, Chittagong, on March 9. They were identified as Mohammad Ataur Rahman, Mohammad Fazal Ahmed and Mohammad Akbar Ali. They are now in jail custody.
Eleven of the 43 accused in the case are now in jail custody while 14 others are on bail.
The rest, including the four other main accused, are absconding. The four-- Hafizur Rahman, Din Mohammad, Abdu Kahsem Madhu and Sobhan Haji- are owners of the trawlers that carried the arms and ammunition.
Present state of the case
Inconsistencies and controversies
in the investigation surfaced as law enforcers hurriedly submitted a charge sheet without properly identifying the people involved in the incident.
Investigation officer (IO) of the case AKM Kabiruddin, assistant superintendent (ASP) of Chittagong zone of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), pressed charges on June 11 last year accusing 39 people.
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Fazlul Karim, who first heard the case on July 15, found gross discrepancies in the investigation process and said the probe was questionable.
The court ordered a detailed investigation and submission of a supplementary report on the charge sheet. Nawsher Ali, now Sylhet Zone ASP of CID, replaced Kabiruddin as the IO.
He submitted a supplementary report to the court on August 26 putting the number of accused at 43 and implicating 114 people in the charge sheet.
Both the charge sheet and supplementary report mentioned Hafizur Rahman, Din Mohammad, Abdu Kahsem Madhu, Sobhan Hazi and Yakub, as the prime suspects.
The government also formed an inquiry committee headed by the home secretary to detect the source and destination of the arms and ammo, and the purposes of smuggling them but it is yet to submit its report.