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'Conversation' with Mutineers

Razzaq quizzed

Staff Correspondent
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday questioned Jamaat-e-Islami leader barrister Abdur Razzaq for over three hours about his alleged telephone conversations with BDR mutineers on February 25*-26, said sources.
Coming out of the CID’s Malibagh headquarters,
Razzaq said the government is out to implicate him in the Pilkhana carnage case to "humiliate him politically".
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Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (Cn^) Abdul KaharAkand said, “We Rave no intention of harassing him. We asked him questions on specific information, and if necessary, we might call him again."
He said, “Besides suspected BDR mutineers, we have talked to several people in connection with the carnage."
Talking to The Daily Star, Akand, also investigation officer in the mutiny case, said they summoned the Jamaat leader to verify some information they have about him.
He however would not elaborate on the matter "in the interest of a fair probe" into the BDR bloodbath that left dozens of army officials killed.
Investigation sources said CID has drawn up a list of persons including a lawmaker for questioning.
Razzaq, Jamaat's assistant secretary general, was in the intelligence outfit's Malibagh office from 10:00am to 1:15pm. He was quizzed also over his "frequent visits abroad and connections there".
The sources added that the interrogators decided to grill him after they became convinced about his conversations with BDR jawans by analysing phone records.
The Jamaat leader said, ’They [investigators] asked me where I was on February 25 and what I did that day."
Queried if he had any phone talks with the border guards or if they [the rebels] sought any legal aid from him, he replied in the negative.
I said I was at the High Court. I watched the news on television though." he continued.
'1 told the investigators that the BDR carnage was an attack on our sovereignty, and they must unravel the mystery without tainting anyone's irnaf
In a notice on Saturday CID asked the Jamaat leader to show up with passport at its headquarters yesterday.
Shortly after receiving the notice, Razzaq sought HC directives against the CID move.
In response, a vacation bench of the court on Sunday directed the government to consider him as a witness, not an accused, and return his passport after examination.
It also gave him anticipatory bail till April 5, and directed the government not to harass or arrest him during that period in connection with the mutiny case.
The Jamaat leader yesterday said, "Despite High Court $ instructions, time and again they (government] barred me and my wife from leaving the country."
He said his wife had an appointment with doctors in a Singapore hospital on March
19. That day a case was filed with the Airport Police Station against the couple on charges of obstructing tlie work of the airport authorities.
The same day Razzaq filed I a contempt petition against , the government for "violating court directives”. The HC granted them bail and stayed the proceedings of the obstruction case.
“Riled by failure in the legal battle, the government has resorted to harassing me. That's why CID asked me to appear before them with my passport,” he observed.
Razzaq said people at home and abroad have condemned the government's ban on his travel. "It is illogical, unjust and inhuman to stop me leaving the country.”
Replying to a query, he said he loves Bangladesh. He belongs here and there's no question of fleeing it.
Talking to reporters at the CID headquarters, Special Superintendent (Dhaka metropolitan) of CID Nasirul Arif said they did not interrogate Razzaq as an accused in the BDR case, rather they asked him some questions on specificinformation.
The questioning was done in compliance with the court’s directives, he added.
"We have taken his personal profile. If necessary we'll ask him for more information."
In reply to a question, Arif said many people have been questioned and many more would be quizzed in future.
Asked if summoning barrister Razzaq had anything to do with his political identity, ASP Abdul Kahar Akand said, “No. we just asked him some questions in connection with the BDR killing case." GOVERNMENT PETITION The government yesterday filed a petition with the Supreme Court to stay the HC order granting Razzaq anticipatory bail.
Attorney General Mahbubey Alam told The Daily Star that the petition may be heard by the vacation chamber judge's court today.