BDR carnage: Bangla court orders submission of probe rpt

A Dhaka court ordered the authorities to submit the police investigation report on last year`s BDR carnage in which 57 army officers were massacred, in a case in which 900 paramilitary soldiers are likely to be charged.

Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Wednesday ordered the
authorities to submit the police investigation report on last
year`s BDR carnage in which 57 army officers were massacred,
in a case in which 900 paramilitary soldiers are likely to be
charged.

Court officials said Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM
Enamul Haque issued the order on prayer by Criminal
Investigation Department (CID), which was supposed to submit
the probe report on the February 25-26 carnage today.

CID`s chief investigator for the case Abdul Kahhar
Akand, however, last month said, they were nearly ready to
submit the charge sheet against the massacre culprits at the
BDR`s Pilkhana headquarters detecting the suspects after one
year`s of thorough investigations.

He said around 900 BDR soldiers out of around 2,100
detained border guards were likely to be charged in the case
for their alleged involvement in killings and lootings keeping
the family members of the army officers at their Pilkhana
headquarters hostage.

Under a government decision the massacre culprits
would be tried under the fast track Speedy Trial Tribunal
which is obligated to complete the trial in 135 days.

The trial of the ordinary mutineer soldiers, who did
not take part in offenses like killings, were being tried
under the relatively lenient BDR Act in Dhaka and four other
places at special BDR courts.

PTI

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