CID to quiz former high-ups of police
Monday, 21 December 2009
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police will quiz a number of former high-ups of police department on their role during the grenade attack on August 21 in 2004 on an Awami League rally.
"A number of police officials including the then Chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Md Ashraful Huda, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Protection and DC East Division would be quizzed at the CID Headquarters very soon," a top police official said in the city Sunday.
None would remain above law in probing the involvement in plotting the carnage or helping the attackers on the rally during the investigation, the official added.
A senior police official supervising the investigation told BSS that the then police commissioner Ashraful Huda went on leave on August 18 to join an international workshop in Honolulu, USA, giving the charge to SM Mizanur Rahman, the then additional commissioner.
But, he stayed back until the morning of August 21 and performed his duties and maintained links with different quarters from DMP office until the evening on August 20.
The source said he (Huda) would be called to the CID immediately to know about his "dubious role" at that time.
The role of SM Mizanur Rahman as an acting commissioner and DC Protection, Md Obaidur Rahman Khan, DC East Zone, Md Rezaul Karim, the then assistant commissioner (AC) of Motijheel Zone and the then Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Motijheel Police Station Md Rafiqul Islam would be probed, a CID officer involved in the investigation said.
They all will be called for interrogation to the CID except former OC Rafique who is already in jail in connection with a murder charge.
A Special Superintendent (SS) of CID police told the news agency that not only the former DMP officials, the then additional inspector general of Special Branch (SB) Abdul Quiyum, the then Director General (DG) of RAB Aziz Sarkar and the then DG of the NSI Major General (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury will also be quizzed.
The CID police in its first phase of investigation implicated one Jodge Miah and some other lower level terrorists in the attack bypassing the big-shots. But during the second phase of investigation, they found involvement of Harkat Ul-Jihad Al-Islami (HUJI) Mufti Moulana Abdul Hannan, former deputy minister of immediate past four-party alliance government Abdus Salam Pintu, his brother Moulana Taj Uddin and a number of police and intelligence officials in the grenade attack.
The police also are reviewing the role of the then state minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzz-aman Babor and senior joint secretary general of BNP Tarique Rahman during and after the brutal attack.
"A number of police officials including the then Chief of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Md Ashraful Huda, Deputy Commissioner (DC) Protection and DC East Division would be quizzed at the CID Headquarters very soon," a top police official said in the city Sunday.
None would remain above law in probing the involvement in plotting the carnage or helping the attackers on the rally during the investigation, the official added.
A senior police official supervising the investigation told BSS that the then police commissioner Ashraful Huda went on leave on August 18 to join an international workshop in Honolulu, USA, giving the charge to SM Mizanur Rahman, the then additional commissioner.
But, he stayed back until the morning of August 21 and performed his duties and maintained links with different quarters from DMP office until the evening on August 20.
The source said he (Huda) would be called to the CID immediately to know about his "dubious role" at that time.
The role of SM Mizanur Rahman as an acting commissioner and DC Protection, Md Obaidur Rahman Khan, DC East Zone, Md Rezaul Karim, the then assistant commissioner (AC) of Motijheel Zone and the then Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Motijheel Police Station Md Rafiqul Islam would be probed, a CID officer involved in the investigation said.
They all will be called for interrogation to the CID except former OC Rafique who is already in jail in connection with a murder charge.
A Special Superintendent (SS) of CID police told the news agency that not only the former DMP officials, the then additional inspector general of Special Branch (SB) Abdul Quiyum, the then Director General (DG) of RAB Aziz Sarkar and the then DG of the NSI Major General (retd) Rezzaqul Haider Chowdhury will also be quizzed.
The CID police in its first phase of investigation implicated one Jodge Miah and some other lower level terrorists in the attack bypassing the big-shots. But during the second phase of investigation, they found involvement of Harkat Ul-Jihad Al-Islami (HUJI) Mufti Moulana Abdul Hannan, former deputy minister of immediate past four-party alliance government Abdus Salam Pintu, his brother Moulana Taj Uddin and a number of police and intelligence officials in the grenade attack.
The police also are reviewing the role of the then state minister for Home Affairs Lutfuzz-aman Babor and senior joint secretary general of BNP Tarique Rahman during and after the brutal attack.