BDR Carnage
Cops give deposition on slain officers' bodies
Eight police officers yesterday gave depositions on the inquest into the deaths of 33 army officers, who were mowed down at Pilkhana in February 2009.
Narrating the conditions of the bodies found on the scene, they said almost all of them were bullet hit, while some were decomposed.
The defence later cross-examined the six sub-inspectors and two inspectors at the Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court, temporarily set up in the capital's Bakshibazar.
Meanwhile, a prosecution witness gave his deposition against eight accused in the BDR carnage case yesterday.
Abdur Rahman, a driver, testified that he saw gun-toting soldiers all around Pilkhana and found three bodies of army officers. He however did not mention who killed them.
The court will resume tomorrow.
So far 170 witnesses have testified against 500 out of over 800 accused in the Pilkhana carnage case, said prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kajol. “The way the proceedings are advancing, we hope the trial of the case would be complete by December”.
Doctors, who performed autopsy on the slain officers' bodies, and high profile witnesses are supposed to begin giving their depositions from the next month, the prosecutor said.
A total of 74 people, including 57 top and mid-ranking army officers, were killed during the February 25-26 massacre at Pilkhana headquarters of now-defunct BDR in 2009.
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