Huda managed 10 coffins, bodies

Barrister Abdullah-al Mamun, counsel for convicts Bazlul Huda and AKM Mohiuddin in Bangabandhu murder case, yesterday claimed before the Supreme Court that Bazlul was innocent and had not been involved in the killings of Bangabandhu and his family members.
Mamun quoted the statement of prosecution witness Abdul Quddus that Bazlul took Bangabandhu's body to the airport after killing him. Besides, he had earlier gone to Mohammadpur to buy ten coffins and also took the rest nine bodies to Banani graveyard, said the counsel.
It is not humanly possible to do so many tasks in cool head after committing murders because a person usually acts quite abnormally after killing someone, Mamun told the apex court while placing arguments during the 10th day's hearing on the appeals of the five convicts.
Mamun said the then Air Force Chief AK Khandaker had sent a helicopter to carry Bangabandhu's body to his village home at Tungipara, on August 16, 1975, the day after the killings took place.
He questioned why AK Khandaker had not taken any initiative to resist the killers and rescue Bangabandhu and his family members on August 15, 1975.
When the court asked Mamun whether he wanted to say the incident of killings did not take place, the counsel said it is true that Bangabandhu and his family members were killed. His clients were not involved in the incident but rather a third force was involved in it, the counsel said.
Mamun said many contradictions are there in the statements of the prosecution witnesses in this case and his client will be proved innocent if those are considered.
The court said according to the provision of article 103 of the constitution, the Appellate Division cannot hear arguments on the statements that had already been placed at trial court.
Mamun said the Appellate Division is the last resort to seek justice. If the court does not hear arguments on the statements, there will be no place for his clients to seek justice.
The five-member bench of the Appellate Division headed by Justice Md Tafazzul Islam adjourned the hearing till 9:30am today.