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Pintu caught from court

Arrested as his name surfaced in nat'l probe report on BDR carnage

Staff Correspondent
Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu was arrested yesterday on the High Court compound in connection with the February 25-26 carnage at the pilkhana BDR headquarters.
Pintu, a former BNP lawmaker, is the first prominent political figure to have been arrested after the sensa tional incident.
His name first officially surfaced when the report of the national committee for investigating the bloody mutiny at Pilkhana categorically said he helped mutineers flee by arranging engihe-run boats to cross the Buriganga at Keraniganj ferry ghat
During the investigation different sources mentioned the names of a few leaders of both the ruling and opposition parties as having links with the mutiny. Pintu was one of them.
Detective Branch police rounded up Pintu along with his brother-in-law Mainur Rahman Apu around 5:15pm when they were coming out of the High Court on a motorbike. Pintu was wearing a black gown of lawyers and a helmet to dodge law
enforcers, witnesses said.
In the face of law enforcers' drive to arrest him. Pintu along with his lawyer appeared before an HC bench for an order to direct the government not to arrest or harass him without any specific charges.
Investigation Officer of the BDR carnage case Abdul Kahar Akand declined to say anything about the charges against Pintu.
Pintu was taken to the Minto Road office of the Detective Branch (DB) around 8:20pm and later to the head quarters of Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which in investigating the BDR carnage case.
Walid Hossain, additional deputy commissioner of DB, told The Daily Star that Pintu was handed over to the CID officials around 10:30pm.
BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain in a statement demanded immediate unconditional release of Pintu and Apu. Their arrest is nothing but part of a repressive policy of die present government, he said.
Monirul Islam, deputy commissioner of DB (south), (old The Daily Star that they arrested Pintu following a requisition from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the BDR carnage.
Earlier, Pintu came under the spotlight on several occasions for his alleged involvement in criminal activities, violence, tender snatching and corruption.
Aluiough he was arrested and sent to jail on criminal charges, as many as 76 cases against him were withdrawn during the rule of die 2001-2006 BNP-led government. Pintu also faces several cases as a former leader of BNP's student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.
He was arrested during the rule of the last caretaker government and during his confinement in jail he again came under spotlight for assaulting a deputyjailer.
The summary of the national committee's probe report, which was revealed on May 27, briefly mentioned Pintu's name as having link with the mutiny at the BDR headquarters.
Under the sub-head "Fleeing of the rebels and their accomplices" the report said, "Some civilians aided BDR men to flee by supplying diem with clothes, food and water. They were led by former BNP ward commissioner Suraiya Begum, her two sons, local criminals Masud and Leather Liton. Many mutineers used the Keraniganj ferry ghat for fleeing. Former BNP lawmaker Nasiruddin Ahmed Pintu helped them flee by arranging engine-run boats to erpss the river. Rab arrested 76 rebels while they were fleeing.”
Meanwhile, the HC bench Pintu appeared before yesterday declined to pass any order on a writ petition filed by Pintu's lawyer seeking a direction to the government not to harass or arrest Pintu without any specific case against him.
After hearing the petition, the HC bench comprised of Justice Tariq-ul Hakim and Justice M Azizul Haque told Pintu's lawyer that the bench was reluctant to pass any order on the petition and asked him to move it to another bench.
During the hearing of the petition, Pintu’s counsel Khandker Mahbub Hossain told the court that the law enforcers are raiding Pintu's residence and looking for him. He also alleged that plainclothes law enforcers have halted his private car at the main gate of the Supreme Court around 4:30pm yesterday and looked for Pintu.