Students of Birshrestha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School and College come out of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters after attending classes yesterday. The school, which had been closed since the BDR mutiny, reopened yesterday. Photo: STAR

The government's probe committee on the BDR carnage will submit its report by the end of this month or in the first week of May, Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan said yesterday.
He was talking to reporters after inaugurating a trade fair in Khulna, reports private television channel ATN.
He said the government has extended time limit thrice to ensure a fair investigation into the incident.
The committee needed the extensions as they had to interrogate around 7000 people, he added.
PILKHANA SCHOOL REOPENS
Meanwhile, Birshrestha Noor Mohammad Rifles Public School and College inside the BDR Pilkhana headquarters reopened yesterday after one and a half months following the BDR carnage in February.
Students said attendance was good and all the classes were held on the first day of reopening the institution.
Army buses picked the students from the BDR gates and brought them to the school and college. They were dropped again at the gates after class hour, said a student, adding that those who have private cars were allowed to enter inside the headquarters only with their driver.
There are four schools and colleges inside the headquarters. The authorities have decided to reopen another institution on April 15 but no date has been fixed yet to reopen two other institutions, sources said.
Meanwhile, BDR authorities asked people who booked the Darbar hall inside Pilkhana on different dates till April 30 to take their booking money back as it will not be possible to reopen the Darbar hall before time, says a press release.
CONFESSION AND REMAND
Another BDR jawan yesterday confessed to his involvement in the carnage at BDR headquarters while four more were taken on a four-day fresh remand.
Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque recorded the statement of Havilder Jalaluddin under section 164 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) after the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced him before a Dhaka court.
With the statement of Jalaluddin, a total of 32 BDR jawans have so far made confessional statements.
The same court yesterday placed four BDR jawans on a four-day fresh remand when 14 suspected mutineers were produced before the court after completion of their five days remand. The court ordered to send 10 others to jail.
Those who were placed on fresh remand are sepoys Jasimuddin, Sumon Miah, Rafiqul Islam and Mizanur Rahman.
The court also ordered to send 13 other BDR jawans to jails after the CID, tasked with the investigation of the mutiny case, produced them before it after showing them arrested in the case.
With the 13 BDR jawans, a total of 1,024 BDR personnel have been shown arrested in the case.