BDR probe body takes more time to report

Deadline expires today
The government probe committee formed to investigate BDR rebellion and massacre of army officers at Pilkhana BDR headquarters may take a few more days to submit its report, the deadline for which expires today.
“We are very close to finalising the report and it may take three to four more days to complete,” a member of the probe committee told The Daily Star yesterday.
Requesting not to be named, he said they have investigated the incident in details. He, however, refused to disclose any probe findings.
The committee headed by retired bureaucrat Anisuzzaman Khan was given a month’s time as it sought time extension for the fourth time for detailed enquiry into the carnage. The latest extension was given in the last week of March.
Meanwhile, 149 BDR jawans were arrested at different battalions and campus of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in Bandarban and Rangamati yesterday following filing of sedation cases against them in connection with the mutiny outside the Pilkhana on February 25-26.
Police and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) assisted by army personnel arrested the BDR jawans–110 from Bolipara 10 Rifles Battalions and 39 others from BDR camps in three upazilas of Rangamati–and produced them before courts in Bandarban and Rangamati.
In Dhaka, four BDR jawans confessed to their involvement in the Pilkhana carnage yesterday while three others were placed on seven days’ remand each for interrogation.
Our correspondent in Bandarban reports: Under tight security the 110 BDR jawans were produced before a Bandarban court yesterday. They were arrested the same day.
The court ordered them to be sent to jail.
Earlier, police filed separate sedition cases against 232 BDR jawans of Bolipur 10 Rifles Battalion and Naikkhangchhari 15 Rifles Battalion.
Our Rangamati correspondent adds: Police yesterday arrested 39 BDR jawans at BDR camps in Baghaichhari, Longudu and Barkal upazilas. A Rangamati court had issued arrest warrants after sedition cases were filed against them.
The court sent the arrestees to Rangamati jail.
Of the 39 arrested BDR jawans, 18 were arrested at Marishya BDR camp, 16 at Chhotohariana camp under Barkal upazila and five at Rajnagar under Longudu BDR camp.
Our court correspondent reports: Four BDR members–deputy assistant directors (DADs) Abdul Jalil and Mirza Habibur Rahman and sepoys Selim Reza and Kazol Ali–made confessional statements before magistrates admitting their involvement in the Pilkhana carnage.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which is investigating the mutiny case in Dhaka, also produced five other BDR jawans–Nayek Mainul Haque, Lance Nayek Saiful Islam and sepoys Ziaul Haque, Abdul Muhith and Ramzan Ali–before a Dhaka court with a petition for showing them arrested in the case.
Of them, sepoys Ziaul Haque, Abdul Muhith and Ramzan Ali were later placed on seven days’ remand each.

Courtesy of The Daily Star