Court refuses to send 2 prime accused

A court in the port city yesterday scrapped a law enforcement agency prayer for taking two of the accused in the Chittagong arms haul case to a remand.
Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Abdul Md Hasib threw away the prayer for taking into remand prime accused Hafizur Rahman alias Hafiz, and Din Mohammad during a hearing of the case in connection with hauling of 10 truckloads of deadly weapons and a huge quantity of ammunition at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL) jetty on April 2, 2004.
Investigation Officer of the case Special SP Ismail Hossain Khan of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted the petition during a hearing held on April 21 arguing that the accused two should be quizzed again.
Two cases were filed with Karnaphuli police station in connection with the incident.
CID started a second investigation into the case when a Chittagong court on March 5 ordered it to do so.