CID gets permission to quiz Hasina on August 21 attack
Thursday, 15 November 2007
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Police has been permitted to speak to former prime minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina as part of a probe into the August 21, 2004 grenade attack, reports bdnews24.com.
Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque gave the permission Tuesday night after the CID filed an appeal the same day.
The CID had earlier sent a letter to the Police Headquarters to issue a 'red warrant' through the Interpol against Maulana Tazuddin, brother of former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu.
The CID chief, Additional Inspector General Fani Bhushan Chowdhury, said Tuesday that they needed to interrogate Hasina in the interest of the case and had applied to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court for Dhaka to do so.
Habibur Rahman, general reporting officer for prosecution at the CMM's Court, told the news agency that they had not received any application until 5:00 pm Tuesday.
As Hasina was neither plaintiff nor convict in the case, but only a victim, the CID did not need permission of the court, he said. Permission of the jail authorities would be enough, he added.
The CID chief said they would examine the bullet-riddled vehicle of Hasina. It was confirmed that the police had fired blank shots, but there was no proof that anybody else had fired.
He said that a convict named Joj Miah's statement was recorded earlier, but that statement had no congruity with the investigation.
In his statement, Joj Miah had revealed names of some top terrorists of Dhaka. But recently, Mufti Hannan in his statement confessed that his organisation had carried out the attack.
Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque gave the permission Tuesday night after the CID filed an appeal the same day.
The CID had earlier sent a letter to the Police Headquarters to issue a 'red warrant' through the Interpol against Maulana Tazuddin, brother of former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu.
The CID chief, Additional Inspector General Fani Bhushan Chowdhury, said Tuesday that they needed to interrogate Hasina in the interest of the case and had applied to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court for Dhaka to do so.
Habibur Rahman, general reporting officer for prosecution at the CMM's Court, told the news agency that they had not received any application until 5:00 pm Tuesday.
As Hasina was neither plaintiff nor convict in the case, but only a victim, the CID did not need permission of the court, he said. Permission of the jail authorities would be enough, he added.
The CID chief said they would examine the bullet-riddled vehicle of Hasina. It was confirmed that the police had fired blank shots, but there was no proof that anybody else had fired.
He said that a convict named Joj Miah's statement was recorded earlier, but that statement had no congruity with the investigation.
In his statement, Joj Miah had revealed names of some top terrorists of Dhaka. But recently, Mufti Hannan in his statement confessed that his organisation had carried out the attack.