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10-Truck Arms Case

Cop tells of NSI link

Says NSI men tried to bar him from seizing consignment

Staff Correspondent, ctg
A former deputy commissioner of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (port zone) yesterday implicated the already accused NSI high-ups and two top officials of CUFL in the smuggling of 10 truck-loads of arms and ammunition in2004.
Abdullahel Baki, the then port zone DC, told a Chittagong court that Maj Liakat and a few other staff of National Security Intelligence (NSI) tried to resist him from seizing the consignment at the jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) in the early hours of April 2, 2004.
Baki was presented before the court yesterday as the 1 Oth prosecution witness in the case.
In his deposition, he also said the then state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar asked him not to give interview to the media on the seizure. The judge of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal-1 SM Mojibur Rahman recorded the deposition and fixed May 21 and 22 for the next proceedings of the trial.
Baki, now posted as additional commissioner to Sylhet Metropolitan Police, also said in his deposition that Sergeant Md Alauddin of Bandar Police Outpost informed him over the phone about the offloading of arms at CUFL jetty around midnight.
On his arrival at Chatury Choumuhani area, the only exit from the jetty, around 2:00am, Baki ordered his force to barricade the road. He reached the jetty around 4:00am and moments later Sergeant Alauddin and Sergeant Helal Uddin of Koiler Depot Police Outpost approached him with five to six other men.
There Helal Uddin introduced a person with him as NSI deputy director (DD) Maj Liakat who wanted to talk to Baki, according to the deposition.
Liakat asked Baki why he was confiscating the consignment when the then NSI director general (DG) Brig Abdur Rahim was aware of it.
Baki said Liakat then contacted someone over his cellphone and asked Baki to talk to the person on the other side whom at
that moment Liakat claimed to be the NSI DG.
“I declined to do so. I told Liakat to tell his DG to talk to the then CMP commissioner Sabbir Ali,” said Baki.
As Liakat and the five others got furious at the refusal, Baki ordered the police sergeants to remove them from there.
He then informed the CMP commissioner of the incident and the commissioner asked him not to lock into altercation with the NSI men, if no specific evidence against them was found.
At this the court wondered what more evidence the commissioner needed when the NSI DD had already resisted him from seizing the arms and ammunition.
Baki told the court that considering the commissioner's instructions and huge quantity of arms and ammunition all around and fearing attack from smugglers he let the NSI men go and started confiscating the arms.
He said police led by Officer-in-charge of Kamaphuli Police Station Ahadur Rahman arrested five persons and seized the arms and ammunition in 10 trucks, a car, a crane and two trawlers from the scene. The recovery continued until 10:30am of April 2.
After reaching Dampara Police Line along with the seized consignment
around 1:30pm, high-ups like Babar, other ministers, IGP Shahidul Hoque Chowdhury, CMP commissioner Sabbir Ali and many others came to inspect the arms, said Baki.
Later, during a meeting at Dampara, Babar forbade Baki to talk to the media on the seizure as the incident was “internationally sensitive”, he continued.
Baki said he wanted to tell the probe body led by the home secretary about the involvement of NSI officials in the smuggling but he was not allowed to share the information.
He further said he suspected involvement of top officials of CUFL, like its managing director Mohsin Talukder and general manager Enamul Hoque, as they did not show up at the jetty during the seizure, and never extended any cooperation during investigation.
After the deposition, Mohammad Ahsan, counsel of Liakat, started cross-examining the witness around 3:15pm. But the court was adjourned shortly after.
Public Prosecutor Kamal Uddin Ahmed said Baki was a vital witness for the prosecution as he had implicated several already accused in the arms haul case. He [Baki] also identified Liakat in the courtroom, the PP added.