38 Rifles Battalion in Sylhet
Verdict today in case against 61 mutineers
The special court-14 will deliver the judgement in the case against 61 mutineers of 38 Rifles Battalion under Sylhet sector today, said a BDR official yesterday.
Argument of the prosecution witnesses by all the 34 accused, who had earlier claimed innocence, completed at the three-member special court headed by Col SM Farhad on December 7. Two other members are Lt Col Akhtaruzzaman and Major Maksudul Alam.
During the argument, the prosecution witnesses, including the then commanding officer Lt Col Gazi Salah Uddin narrated how the accused had revolted at the battalion on February 26, 2009.
The court, set up at Sylhet sector headquarters, also completed recording statements of the prosecution witnesses in the case on December 7. Earlier, on 20 October, the same court read out the allegations against the accused.
In their depositions, the prosecution witnesses said the jawans took control of the 38 battalion in the city's Akhalia area on Sylhet-Sunamganj Highway on February 26, 2009.
They looted firearms from armoury, fire blank shots and blocked the highway, he added.
Deputy Attorney general Farhad Ahmed represented the attorney general while special public prosecutors Gazi Zillur Rahman and Habibur Rahman Sheikh were present.
The then officer-in-charge of Sylhet Kotwali Police Station filed three separate cases with the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court on May 17 last year against the BDR men of Sylhet sector and its two battalions as they had revolted against their offiers, 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.
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