CID summons Jamaat leader Razzaq for interrogating over BDR carnage
Monday, 30 March 2009
The CID investigation officer (IO) in the Peelkhana BDR carnage case summoned Jamaat-e-Islami leader Barrister Abdur Razzaq into its Malibagh headquarters at 10 am Monday for exclusive interrogation over the terrible mutiny, reports UNB.
Abdul Kahar Akand, assistant police superintendent and the IO, served the notice under section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code Saturday in connection with the case filed with Lalbagh police station.
In the notice Barrister Razzaq also has been requested to bring his passport with him to the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) headquarters for examination.
A day after receiving the notice, the Jamaat assistant secretary general, Razzaq, apprehending arrest, moved to the vacation bench of the High Court today (Sunday) and secured anticipatory bail for a week on surrender in connection with the BRD carnage case.
On another petition in the form of writ, the vacation bench of Justice Shahidul Islam turned down the plea for staying operation of the CID notice on him for exclusive interrogation.
The bench, however, asked the CID not to seize the petitioner's passport after the checking.
The writ petition challenging the validity of the CID notice will come up for hearing in the regular HC bench after the reopening on April 5.
Nobojati Khisha, Officer-in-Charge of Lalbagh police station, on February 28 filed the First Information Report (FIR) regarding the massacre inside the paramilitary border force's headquarters that left almost all the army officers in its command dead.
By official count, a total of 75 people, 57 of them army officers and one army sepoy, were killed. The rest are two family members of army officers, 8 BDR jawans and 7 civilians.
In support of his interim anticipatory bail petition, Barrister Razzaq termed himself as an accused-petitioner and claimed to be innocent. He said, "The CID notice has been issued not for the purpose of interrogating me but for the collateral purpose of impounding my passport, thereby preventing me from leaving the country."
The accused-petitioner has not been named in the FIR. "As such, the issuance of the notice requesting me for interrogation in connection with the BDR massacre case is an abuse of process and a device to arrest and implicate me in the case," he said.
Barrister Ajmalul Hossain, QC , appeared for Razzaq while Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam for the state opposed both the petitions.
Abdul Kahar Akand, assistant police superintendent and the IO, served the notice under section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code Saturday in connection with the case filed with Lalbagh police station.
In the notice Barrister Razzaq also has been requested to bring his passport with him to the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) headquarters for examination.
A day after receiving the notice, the Jamaat assistant secretary general, Razzaq, apprehending arrest, moved to the vacation bench of the High Court today (Sunday) and secured anticipatory bail for a week on surrender in connection with the BRD carnage case.
On another petition in the form of writ, the vacation bench of Justice Shahidul Islam turned down the plea for staying operation of the CID notice on him for exclusive interrogation.
The bench, however, asked the CID not to seize the petitioner's passport after the checking.
The writ petition challenging the validity of the CID notice will come up for hearing in the regular HC bench after the reopening on April 5.
Nobojati Khisha, Officer-in-Charge of Lalbagh police station, on February 28 filed the First Information Report (FIR) regarding the massacre inside the paramilitary border force's headquarters that left almost all the army officers in its command dead.
By official count, a total of 75 people, 57 of them army officers and one army sepoy, were killed. The rest are two family members of army officers, 8 BDR jawans and 7 civilians.
In support of his interim anticipatory bail petition, Barrister Razzaq termed himself as an accused-petitioner and claimed to be innocent. He said, "The CID notice has been issued not for the purpose of interrogating me but for the collateral purpose of impounding my passport, thereby preventing me from leaving the country."
The accused-petitioner has not been named in the FIR. "As such, the issuance of the notice requesting me for interrogation in connection with the BDR massacre case is an abuse of process and a device to arrest and implicate me in the case," he said.
Barrister Ajmalul Hossain, QC , appeared for Razzaq while Attorney-General Mahbubey Alam for the state opposed both the petitions.