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40 BDR men found directly involved

Staff Correspondent
Investigators have found direct involvement of 40 members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) so far in the bloody massacre and looting inside the Pilkhana BDR Headquarters during the February 25-26 mutiny.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday handed over 12 out of those 40 border guards to Laibagh Police Station in connection with the mutiny case filed with the police station, said a top law-enforcing official involved in the investigation of the case wishing anonymity.
Meanwhile. Pesh Imam of BDR central mosque Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman, a witness to the carnage in Pilkhana, died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday afternoon after he fell sick during interrogation.
Those who were found embroiled in the massacre are BDR Subeder Gofran Mallik, Havildar Rezaul Karim, Lance Nayek Gausul Azam, Lance Nayek Yusuf Ali, Sepoys Joyanta Kumar Sarkar, Zamir Ali, Abdul Latif, Sohrab Hossain, Ismail Hossain, Shariful Islam, Rafiqul Islam and Masudur Rahman.
The top law-enforcing official said they had recovered firearms and grenades looted from the BDR headquarters from the village homes of Rafiqul, Shariful and Yusuf.
He also said at least one of the captured BDR members admitted that they were present at Darbar on February 25 and he
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himself spread bullets on officers there and two of them confessed to having shot officers to death after chasing them down.
One of the arrestees used a vehicle to carry firearms to kill officers at Darbar from armouries inside the BDR headquarters, he said.
He added they had also detected the BDR jawan who had killed the wife of slain BDR director General Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed.
Rab Director General (D G) Hasan Mahmood Khandker at a press briefing at Rab headquarters, however, said, 'After primary investigation it seemed 12 border guards took part in the bloodbath and other offences during the mutiny."
When asked about the involvement of Islamist militant outfits and the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa) in the mutiny Rab DG averted the query and said the Islamist militants are now under complete control of the law-enforcement agencies.
The arrestees were paraded before the journalists at the press conference but journalists were barred from asking them any questions.
DEATH OF BDR CENTRAL MOSQUE PESH IMAM Pesh Imam of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) central mosque Mohammad Siddiqur Rahman died at the DMCH yesterday afternoon.
He was admitted to the DMCH Tuesday evening following a cardiac arrest.
Rahman, 45, fell sick Tuesday afternoon when investigators interrogated him as a witness to the carnage at BDR headquarters, said his son Mohammad Naim.
He was then rushed to the DMCH and admitted to the coronary care unit (CCU) where he died at about 3:00pm. hospital sources said.
His body was sent to the Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy.
Six mutineers on further remand
Our Court Correspondent reports: A Dhaka court yesterday placed six mutineers including Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Tauhidul Alam on a three-day fresh remand for interrogation in connection with the BDR mutiny case.
The court passed the
order after Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the case, produced them before it with a five-day further remand prayer.
The other arrestees are DAD Abdur Rahim, Habllder Azad Ali, Nayek Mohammad Firoj Ahmed, lawan Zakir Hossain and cook Amirul Islam.
Tauhid, Rahim, Azad, Firoz and Zakir were produced before the court after completion of their sevenday remand while Amir of a five-day remand in bulletproof vests and helmets with their hands cuffed behind their backs.
Eight other mutineers were earlier taken on remand on different terms and they were being quizzed about the carnage.
Moreover, 52 BDR mutineers were shown arrested yesterday in the same case.
A total of 161 mutineers arrested so far from different places were also shown arrested in the case.
Meanwhile, Rab members held nine BDR men from BDR Training Centre at Baitul Ijjat under Satkania in Chittagong Monday night in connection with the mutiny, reports our staff correspondent from Chittagong. Rab did not disclose their names.