Babar has to meet Joj Mia, ex-IOs
The Criminal Investigation Department would bring Lutfozzaman Babar, three ex-investigators and Joj Miah face to face in a day or two for interrogation in connection with the August 21 blasts.
CID took Babar, former BNP state minister for home, on a five-day remand yesterday. Earlier on Thursday, the apex court lifted the High Court's stay on Babar's remand.
Babar was brought to the CID headquarters at the city's Malibagh from Kashimpur jail in Gazipur at around 11:30am.
Interrogators quizzed him throughout the day with focus on sources of the grenades used in the August 21 attack that left 23 people killed and scores injured at an Awami League rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.
Talking to The Daily Star, CID's Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand, also investigation officer of the case, said, "We are already getting vital information from him."
Speaking in return for anonymity, an ASP involved in the investigation said, “We have summoned retired special superintendent Ruhul Amin and retired ASPs Abdur Rashid and Munshi Atiqur Rahman to be at the CID office. We will question them in presence of Babar and Joj Miah."
The three former officials face charges of misleading the August 21 investigation.
In their farcical probe, they had picked Joj Miah as the fall guy. Besides, they had forced Abul Hashem alias Rana and Shafiqul Islam into admitting involvement in the August 21 carnage.
Ward Commissioner Mukhlesur Rahman, an AL leader who had been arrested for alleged links to the blasts, too would be asked to be available for interrogation.
Meanwhile, the officials assigned to probe the blasts afresh said they are trying to get to the sources of the grenades and know how those were smuggled in.
Babar was shown arrested in the grenade attack case on October 26.
Of the 22 charge-sheeted accused in the case, 21 belong to banned Islamist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami. The other one, Abdus Salam Pintu, is a former BNP state minister.
Of the accused, 13 including Pintu and Huji boss Mufti Abdul Hannan are behind bars and the rest on the run.
CID pressed charges on June 11 last year.
Comments