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zone) Arifuzzaman Arif arrived and asked him to examine the body. “I found multiple pellet injuries all over the body and a wound on the back of the head, bleeding onto the stretcher.”

But Arif ordered him not to mention the pellet injuries. When the SI declined, the officer hurled abuse and threatened, “If you don’t obey, I’ll frame you as a Jamaat-Shibir man.”

As the situation worsened, Arif pressed him further, saying that he was under pressure, then verbally abused his deceased parents and threatenedto have him killed by Awami League men.

Around 10:30pm, Arif returned with Executive Magistrate Ahmed Sadat and again forced him to prepare the report. “With no option left, in the presence of the magistrate, I was compelled not to mention the pellet injuries and instead wrote that there were multiple small wounds and a head injury,” he told the tribunal.

Meanwhile, six prosecution witnesses testified before the ICT-1 yesterday in a case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, and ex-inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.

With this, ICT-1 has so far recorded testimonies of 45 prosecution witnesses.

The witnesses are Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate of Dhaka Md Zakir Hossain, who recorded the statement of former IGP Mamun; Associate Professor at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor) Mohammad Serajus Saleheen, who treated July victims; CID Dhaka’s Digital Forensic Lab experts Inspector Rokonujjaman and SI Md Shahed Jobayer Lorence; CID’s forensic expert SI Golam Eftakhar Alam; and CID ballistic expert SI Sheikh Nazrul Islam, who examined two bullets and three metal pellets.

Inspector Rokonujjaman and SI Lorence told the tribunal that they had conducted forensic analysis of two audio conversations -- one between Hasina and former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Fazle Noor Taposh, and the other between Hasina and former Dhaka University vice-chancellor ASM Maksud Kamal.

They said that upon examinations, the female voice matched the specimen voice of Hasina, while the male voices matched Taposh and Maksud Kamal’s specimen.

Inspector Rokonujjaman also testified that he examined the voice of former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman, an accused in an ICT case, and found it matched his specimen.

At one point, prosecutor Mizanul Islam rebuked Rokonujjaman and sought to recall parts of his testimony, saying he had made mistakes. Presiding Judge Md Mohitul Hoque Anam Chowdhury cautioned him. “Please do not scold a witness in front of the tribunal. If the witness is not prepared, withdraw him and produce again after preparing the witness,” said Mohitul. Mizanul later apologised.

Magistrate Zakir Hossain told the tribunal that he recorded ex-IGP Mamun’s statement on March 24 in the presence of the investigation officer and Mamun’s lawyer, after giving the accused time in his chamber from 12:15pm to 2:45pm. He said Mamun had confessed voluntarily.

During the cross-examination, state-appointed defence counsel Md Amir Hossain, representing accused Hasina and Kamal, asked whether he had informed Mamun of the consequences of such a confessional statement.

Zakir said he did not, adding that all necessary details were included in the certification (form of record of confession) and that as a former IGP, Mamun was fully aware of the implications of a confessional statement.

Speaking to journalists during a break, Amir claimed the recording of the statements was somewhat illegal and perhaps not in line with regulations.

In his testimony, doctor Saleheen said that between July 19 and August 4 last year, 17 patients admitted to Nitor, also known as Pangu Hospital, had one of their legs amputated, while three others had one of their arms amputated. He added that two patients were declared dead upon arrival during that period, while six more died after undergoing operations.