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Pintu to be further quizzed

Staff Correspondent
Former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu may be taken on further remand today in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case as investigators are yet to squeeze a statement about his involvement, sources said.
Pintu also remained tight-lipped about the alleged link of former home ministry boss Lutfozzaman Babar and Hawa Bhaban to the attack on an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenuein 2004.
Asked about the latest develop-ments after Pintu's arrest, Criminal Investigation Department (CID) chief Phani Bhoushan Choudhury said: "There is no major development in the investigation."
"As his three-day remand expires today, we'll produce him before the court and seek further remand to learn who else were involved." a CID official told The Daily Star last night.
The investigators arrested Pintu in the city on January 18 after they had been confirmed that he was involved in the attack that left 24 AL leaders and activists killed and scores wounded.
Mufti Abdul Hannan, detained operations commander of outlawed Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji), in his recent confessional statement said the attack had been planned at Pintu's Dhanmondi residence.
The sources said the interrogators are also trying to trace if more influential people were also among the masterminds of the orchestrated attack
The interrogators asked Pintu about the whereabouts of his brother Moulana Tajuddin, who supplied from Pakistan the grenades used in the carnage.
Tajuddin is now hiding abroad and was allegedly involved in Pakistan-based Islamist militant organisation Lashkar-e-Tayaba.
Pintu was interrogated at a Taskforces for Interrogation (TFD cell since his remand started on Saturday.
Sources said the intelligence officials asked Pintu to surrender his government passport, but he said he has forgot where it is. The officials are looking into his travels abroad prior to the August 21 attack.
Meanwhile, the interrogators produced Hannan's associate and Huji activist Hossain Ahmed alias Tamim before Pintu yesterday and crosschecked their information.
The sources said Hannan might also be brought face to face with Pintu soon to verify his statement with Pintu's.
Tamim, now on a four-day remand in the same case, helped Hannan find a house let by his uncle at Badda’s Anandanagar in the city.
Rapid Action Battalion arrested him with a grenade in Narsingdi in the last week of October last year.