Charges framed against 61 Sylhet mutineers
The Special court-14 yesterday framed charges against 61 mutineers of Sylhet BDR sector headquarters.
After framing charges, 28 of the accused confessed to their involvement in the mutiny and prayed for mercy while the rest claimed innocence.
Prosecutor Major AKM Aurangajeb, also acting commanding officer of the sector, gave a detailed description of February 26 incident at the sector headquarters. The Special Court-14, headed by Comilla Sector Commander Col SM Farhad recorded the statement of the prosecutor.
Two other members of the court are Lt Col Akhtaruzzaman and Major Md Masudul Haque. Deputy Attorney General Farhad Ahmed and special public prosecutors Gazi Zillur Rahman and Md Habibur Rahman Sheikh were also present.
The then officer-in-charge of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station Inspector Syeduzzaman filed three separate cases with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court on May 17 last year against BDR rebels of Sylhet sector and two battalions under the sector they revolted against their officers on February 26, expressing solidarity with the mutineers of BDR headquarters at Pilkhana in the capital.
They were immediately arrested and produced in the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court that sent them to the jail hajat.
On February 26, 2009, the jawans took control of the Sylhet sector and the two battalions located at the city's Akhalia area on Sylhet-Sunamganj Highway. They also set fire to some vehicles in front of the battalion headquarters, looted firearms from armouries fired at least 200 blank shots.
Judgment in the first case for February 26 mutiny was given on August 2 this year. The Special Court-3 sentenced 14 BDR men of eight Rifles Battalion, Sunamganj, to different terms of rigorous imprisonment for their involvement in the mutiny.
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