500 more BDR soldiers held outside Dhaka for mutiny

Five hundred more soldiers of the Bangladesh Rifles were arrested in different districts outside Dhaka and sent to jails on Thursday in connection with the February 25-26 rebellion.
Satkania police in Chittagong arrested 100 soldiers from Baitul Ijjat Training Centre, Feni police arrested 64 jawans of 19 Rifles battalion at Jaylaskar, Jessore police detained 43 soldiers at 22 Rifles battalion, Kushtia police arrested 42 at Mirpur sector headquarters, Khulna police held 49 jawans, Khagrachhari police arrested 102 soldiers of different battalions, Bandarban police arrested 40 soldiers, 62 jawans were held in Satkhira, 23 in Brahmanbaria and 12 in Chuadanga.
All the soldiers were arrested in connection with 12 cases filed with the police in different districts for rebellion at their respective battalion and sector headquarters on the second day of the mutiny that broke out at the BDR headquarters in the capital on February 25 and was quelled on February 26.
In Chittagong, the Satkania police detained 100 border guards from Baitul Izzat Training Centre on Thursday morning.
Officer-in-charge of Satkania police station, Aslam Hossain, said
that the arrestees were taken to a Chittagong court which sent them to the jail.
In Khagrachhari, the police arrested 102 BDR members at Matiranga and Ramgarh on Wednesday night.
Among the arrestees, 45 were from 29 Rifles Battalion at Chhedachhera under Matiranga upazila and the rest 57 from 11 Rifles Battalion in Ramgarh.
Two sedition cases were filed against them with Matiranga and Ramgarh police stations.
In Dhaka, the Criminal Investigation Department of police, assigned to investigate the BDR carnage case, detained
9 more soldiers at the
BDR headquarters at Pilkhana on Thursday. The police will produce them in the chief
metropolitan magistrate’s court on Friday with a prayer for showing them arrested in the case and also seek remand for them.
The police also produced three soldiers in the CMM court and
two of them were remanded in police custody for three days while the other was sent to jail on Thursday.
With them, a total of 105 people are now in the custody of CID police on remand.
With the latest, a total of 1,048 soldiers have been arrested in connection with 25 cases filed in 21 districts outside the capital while in Dhaka, the lawmen arrested a total of 1,386 people, most of them soldiers, in connection with the BDR carnage case filed
with the New Market police station. Some 75 people, including three civilians, have so far made confessional statements in the courts.

Courtesy of NewAgebd