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Railwaygate

5 BGB men quizzed

Staff Correspondent
The railway probe committee on the Tk 70 lakh cash haul scandal interrogated two officers and three jawans of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at the force's headquarters in the capital yesterday. All the five BGB personnel came up with similar versions, saying that they allowed on the night of April 9 the microbus of former railway minister's APS inside Pilkhana as the vehicle carried a Jatiya Sangsad sticker.
None of them saw the money, they claimed to the probe body, but said that the APS's driver Ali Azam Khan had started hollering that there was illegal money in the vehicle immediately after he had driven the microbus into Pilkhana, sources close to the two-member committee told The Daily Star.
Director General of Bangladesh Railway Abu Taher heads the probe committee. Joint Secretary of railway ministry Shashi Kumar Singha is the other member.
The team went to Pilkhana around 11:00am to know what actually happened on that night and interrogated the BGB personnel at the office of BGB director general until2:30pm.
The BGB personnel also told the probe team that they had released the driver, sacked APS Omar Faruq Talukder and suspended railway general manager Yusuf Ali Mridha and Dhaka division security commandant Enamul Haq onApril 10.
However, the driver remains still traceless.
The rest three have already appeared before the probe bodies formed by the railway and the AntiCorruption Commission to explain their involvement in the incident.
The BGB men informed the probe body that the driver had driven the
microbus inside Pilkhana following a feud with the APS and the railway officers.
“We will visit Pilkhana again to interrogate the other BGB personnel present on that night,” said Abu Taher, claiming that satisfactory progress had been made in the investigation.
About questioning the driver, the railway DG said they had sent letters to his permanent address in Chandpur and also issued advertisements in newspapers asking him to appear before the committee, “but he failed to turn up”.
“We have nothing to do if he does not appear to give his statement,” Taher added.
The railwaygate scandal led to the resignation of railway minister Suranjit Sengupta. The government later made him minister without portfolio.