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BDR Carnage

Anisul made chief public prosecutor

Staff Correspondent
The government appointed Anisul Huq, a senior lawyer of the Supreme Court (SC) and a counsel for the Anticorruption Commission (ACC), as the chief public prosecutor for the BDR headquarters camage case.
However, the law minister himself was unaware of this appointment and there is still confusion whether public prosecutors will at all be needed in thiscase.
The government also appointed two other SC law-yers--Syed Haider Ali and Mosharraf Hossain Kajal--as public prosecutors for the case.
Law Minister Shafique Ahmed yesterday at his Secretariat office told newsmen that he did not know whether any public prosecutor was appointed for the case.
Anisul Huq. also a state counsel for Bangabandhu • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman assassination case, told The Daily Star at his Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) chamber yesterday afternoon that he received a letter signed by Mir Shafiqul Alam, a deputy solicitor under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Thursday night appointing him as chief public prosecutor of the case.
He said Syed Haider, a former deputy attorney general (DAG), and Mosharraf Hossain Kajal, a lawyer for ACC and state counsel for Bangabandhu killing case, was appointed public prosecutors in the Pilkhana carnage case.
Earlier, talking to newsmen, Anisul Huq said if the case is tried under the Bangladesh Army Act, 1952, there is no need for public prosecutors.
"The case is now under investigation and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has been conducting the enquiry into the incident. Under which law the accused of the case will be tried shall be determined after completion of the investigation process," he said.
He said the investigation of the case is going on under conventional laws.
When asked why they have been appointed as prosecutors, since there is no scope for appointing public prosecutors under the Army Act, Anisul said, "I do not know why the government appointed us. The government knows best."
He said, "Prosecutors can be needed during the investigation of any case. Perhaps, we have been appointed to examine the legal aspects of the investigation.”
Replying to a question on why the minister does not know about the appointment, he said he does not know what is going on with the appointment of prosecutors.
"There may be something wrong with our appointments and I will ask the law minister about it,” he said.