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Ctg Arms Haul Cases

Statements collected through torture

Say two accused former NSI officials

Staff Correspondent, ctg
Two former National Security Intelligence (NSI) officials, accused in the Chittagong arms haul cases, told a Chittagong court yesterday that they were forced to provide confessional statements under duress, tortured physically and verbally abused during remand.
The officials, former NSI director general Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim and director Major (retd) Liakat Hossain, were allowed by Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal Number 1 to have their say on the charges.
The two cases, one for smuggling firearms and the other under the arms act, were filed a day after seven truckloads of arms and ammunition were seized at a jetty of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd in Chittagong city on April 2,2004.
Abdur Rahim said he was arrested at his Dhaka residence onMayl5,2009 without a warrant.
During remand, he was once blindfolded, tied up and hung upside down from a ceiling fan. Another time, he tripped and fell on wires in the darkness inside a Chittagong jail, where conditions were unhygienic, and hurt his eyes and required eight stitches around them, he said.
He started fearing for his life after overhearing several phone conversations the investigation officer (IO), Md
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Moniruzzaman, had with unknown people, said Abdur Rahim.
Having no mental and physical strength and threatened of being implicated in other cases, he had accepted the statements as his own before the magistrate, he added.
He also stated that he was
victimised for having come across confidential information on high-profile authorities during his three-year service.
Liakat said he, arrested in Dhaka on May 26, 2009, was brought to Criminal Investigation Department's Chittagong office where a journalist had tried to question him and he had ques-
tioned how the journalist could do so.
During remand at the Task Force for Interrogation cell, he became seriously ill. "Moniruzzaman pressed me and threatened to implicate me if I do not give false statements against NSI DG Abdur Rahim, officer Shahab Uddin and others," he said.