Joj Miah tells CID of torture, pressure

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday recorded the statement of Joj Miah who was forced to give confessional statement by three former CID officers on the August 21 grenade attack on Awami League rally.
Statements of Joj Miah's mother and brother were also recorded for over three hours from 12:30pm at Kashimpur-1 Jail, said CID Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rownakul Huq Chowdhury, the investigation officer of the case filed against the three former CID officers.
In his statement, Joj Miah narrated how he was tortured and forced to give confessional statement in the grenade attack case.
"Joj Miah is now at the jail in connection with another case while his mother Zobeda Begum and brother Babul Hossain were asked to go to the jail gate to give their statements," said ASP Rownakul.
He said, "In separately recorded statements, they narrated what they know about the activities of those three former CID officials."
Meanwhile, the CID asked Abul Hasem Rana and Shafiqul Islam, who were also forced to give confessional statements in the grenade attack case by the former CID officials, to appear at its Malibagh headquarters on April 12 for giving their statements.
According to CID sources, retired ASP Abdur Rashid, the first IO of the August 21 grenade attack case, arrested 20 people and forced three of them to make false statements.
After his retirement, ASP Munshi Atiqur Rahman was appointed as the second IO while retired special superintendent (SS) Ruhul Amin was their supervisor.
ASP Fazlul Kabir of CID, who was appointed IO of the grenade attack case by the last caretaker government, filed a case on March 29 with Paltan police against the three retired CID officials on charges of misdirecting the case, destroying evidence and forcing people to make false statements to save the real culprits.