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30 more days given for BDR probe report

Staff Correspondent
The home ministry probe committee investigating last month's BDR carnage got 30 more working days to submit its report. This is the fourth time the ministry extended time for the probe body.
The time extension came after the 11 -member committee, headed by retired bureaucrat Anis-uz-Zaman, asked the home ministry for more
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time, says a home ministry announcement.
The committee was supposed to submit its report last Sunday, according to the third extension of time. On that day, Anis-uz-Zaman claimed he had two more days to submit the report.
Meanwhile, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday said the government would not start the trial of the Pilkhana carnage case before gening the investigation report.
"The government cannot start the trial, without completing the investigation," he told The Daily Star at his Bangladesh Secretariat office. "The probe report will show who were involved in the car-1 nage," he added.
On the extension of time, he said there are certain valid reasons behind taking more time.
Shafique said the government would determine under which law the trial of the Pilkhana carnage case would beheld.
The committee, which was reconstituted on March 2 by replacing Home Minister Sahara Khatun with Anis-uz-Zaman as its head, was initially given seven days to complete its task.
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days more as the committee1 failed to produce any' findings. It was allowed four more working days on March 23 to complete the probe.
Time for the committee expired Sunday, as Thursday was a public holiday on the occasion of Independence Day followed by the weekend.
The probe committee was comprised of the law secretary, additional secretary to the home ministry, director general of BDR. representatives from the cabinet division, the armed forces, the Prime Minister's Office and the police.
The committee, which is looking into the reasons behind the massacre, is supposed to make recommendations on related issues.
The government on February 26 formed a six-member enquiry committee led by Sahara Khatun to investigate the incident at the BDR Pilkhana headquarters.
Two more committees-one commissioned by the army and the other by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police--are still conducting their investigations.
The BDR carnage left 74 persons, including 57 army officials, dead and many injured.