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Ctg Ammo Haul

Ex-home secy Omar quizzed

Staff Correspondent, ctg
Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday in Chittagong interrogated former Home Secretary Omar Faruk who led a five-member probe committee the home ministry formed following the seizure of ten truckloads of firearms in early hours of April 02,2004.
A top retired army officer, who held a key position in the port city during the seizure of the deadly consignment, might also be interrogated to find out the activities of DGFI and NSI in Chittagong, said a highly placed official of CID.
Besides, the seized arms and ammunition were counted and listed with the help of armed forces and taken under Army custody, he added.
CID members started interrogating Omar Faruk at about 11:00am and continued till 7:00pm at CID Chittagong divisional headquarters at Dampara Police Lines.
The investigators wanted to know about the investigation the high-level probe committee carried out and inquired about its finding that implicated only five persons creating scope for most of those involved in the incident to escape the charge.
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The journalists could talk to Omar Faruk when he emerged from the room of the Investigation Officer (IO) at around 7:10pm.
Asked if his committee had to investigate the case following direction and under pressure from any other quarter or if they could investigate freely. Omar Faruk said he had told the investigators whatever he had to say.
IO Muniruzzaman Chowdhury, a senior ASP of CID, Chittagong, said Faruk had told them that the high-level committee could work freely.
But the committee could not earn' out the investigation properly due to time constraint. The committee had only two-week time and excluding the holidays it had some ten days before submitting its report, said the 10 quoting the former home secretary.
The IO said they might bring Omar Fanik for further interrogation and rest of the committee members would also be quizzed.
Former Deputy Inspector
General (DIG) of Special Branch (SB) Shamsul Islam, former director of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) Maj Gen (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury, former National Security Intelligence (NS1) director Enamur Rahman Chowdhury and former CID DIG Farruk Ahmed Chowdhury were in the probe committee as members.
Of them, investigators already quizzed Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury who retired as the director general (DG) of NSI and was now behind bars along with another former NSI DG Brigadier General (retd) Abdur Rahim.
The high-level probe body submitted its report showing only Hafizur Rahman, Din Mohammad, Abul Kashem Madhu, Haji Sobhan, owner of the vessels that carried the consignment, and late Md Yakub, who rented out trucks for the consignment.
The probe-commit tee report is believed to have affected the investigation of CID and the charge sheet the latter submitted accusing 44 persons earlier, said the sources.