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BDR Carnage Case

Defence accuses CID of torture

Staff Correspondent
A defence lawyer of the BDR carnage case yesterday claimed before a session judge's court that his client's leg was pierced by a drill machine during remand in CID custody. When the lawyer Khandokar Shah Jahan told the court that it could find the wound of his client as evidence of "torture", Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Zohurul Hoque said nothing.
The defence lawyer was cross-examining exmetropolitan magistrate Shamima Parvin, who recorded confessional statements of 32 BDR jawans, for the third day.
The accused havilder Md Selim Bhuiya was kept in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) custody for ten days before he was taken to the magistrate to record his statement under section 164 on September 9, 2009, his lawyer alleged.
The defence counsel said, "My client wanted to show you (magistrate) the wound by taking off his clothes, and wanted to have the matter recorded in the statement. But you refused to take a look on the wound."
The magistrate, also the prosecution witness, in her reply, said, "This is not true. As he did not inform me anything about the torture, there is no question of seeing his body."
Another lawyer Jamal Khandoker said his client nayak subedar Alauddin Sarder had injury marks on his nose but the magistrate did not mention it in the
prescribed form.
She gave the accused less than ten minutes instead of three hours to rethink about giving his confessional statement, the lawyer told the court.
The magistrate, however, denied the allegations.
A report of Human Rights Watch on July 04 this year claimed that the accused BDR are subjected to gross human rights violations. It also called upon the government to immediately halt the trial.
A total of 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed by the mutinous soldiers of BDR (now Border Guard Bangladesh) in the 25-26 February, 2009 mutiny.
Meanwhile, Whip of the Parliament Mirza Azam yesterday started giving his deposition as a prosecution witness before the court.
Before Azam began giving his deposition as the first ever political person, defence lawyers appealed to the court to fix another date for receiving his deposition as Aminul Islam, lawyer of one of the prime accused deputy assistant director of BDR Touhid, was not present in the court.
The court criticised the defence lawyers for making the appeal and adjourned the proceedings till 27 of this month.