The Crime Desk: The bail hearing and testimony in the explosives act case in the BDR mutiny incident are starting today, Sunday (January 19). The proceedings will begin at the temporary court adjacent to the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj.
Earlier, the trial of this case was held at the temporary court at the Government Alia Madrasa ground in Bakshibazar.
It is learned that the judge of the temporary court set up in the prison is Md. Ibrahim Mia, and Borhan Uddin will serve as the public prosecutor.
After August 5, the court infrastructure was vandalized. Then, on January 8, someone or someoneset the temporary courtroom on fire. Later, the Law Ministry declared the temporary court building adjacent to the Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj as a temporary court.
On February 25 and 26, 2009, 74 people, including 57 army officers, were killed in a mutiny at the Border Guard Headquarters in Peelkhana, Dhaka. Two cases were filed in this incident under the Explosives Act and the Murder Act.
The trial of 834 accused in the Explosives Act case began in 2010. But in the middle, the state side suspended the proceedings of the explosives case and presented only the evidence of the murder case. Due to which the trial of this case was delayed. After being acquitted or sentenced in the murder case, the release of 468 people is pending due to the explosives case.
The families of 400 BDR members are hopeful about the bail hearing. Those involved in the case believe that the explosives case will be resolved quickly as the complications with the court are over.
The lawyers for the accused say that many were not in Peelkhana at the time of the incident and were accused. Again, because they were on leave, their names were called from their village homes and added to the list of the accused. They lost everything in their lives after being imprisoned for a decade and a half in the Explosives Act case.
