Another BDR man commits 'suicide'

One more Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) member reportedly committed suicide yesterday at its Pilkhana headquarters.
A total of seven BDR jawans have reportedly committed suicides and five others died of cardiac arrests since the mutiny on February 25-26.
New Market police said sepoy Ashraful Alam, 26, of battalion-13 committed suicide at Sunday night by hanging himself from the ventilator of a bathroom with a gamchha (traditional towel).
Police said he had fled the Pilkhana during the mutiny and later joined the headquarters.
Meanwhile, two more BDR jawans yesterday confessed to their involvement in the Pilkhana carnage while four others were placed on a fourday fresh remand for interrogation and five were shown arrested in the case.
Metropolitan Magistrates Julfikar Hayat and Moazzem Hossain recorded statements of sepoys Mizanur Rahman and Rafiqul Islam after the investigation officer (IO) of the case produced them before the court. Later they were sent back to jail.
The jawans who were remanded are sepoys Obaidul Haque, Riaz Ahmed, Rafiqul Islam and Zakir Hossain.
Metropolitan Magistrate Faisal Atiq Bin Kader passed the four-day remand order for four jawans after Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) produced them before his court.
The IO prayed for a fresh fiveday remand on completion of their five-day remand.
The same court sent five persons to jail. They are Pulock Kanti Mallick, Rafiqul Islam, Lutfor Rahman, two civilians -- Sujan Chowdhury and Ajmat Ali; Four sepoys-- Moniruzzaman, Abdul Mannan, Habibur Rahman and Bidhan Chandra Saha were shown arrested and later they were sent to jail.
With yesterday's two, 30 jawans and civilians had so far given confessional statements.
Moreover, 13 more BDR jawans were sent to Pilkhana yesterday from battalion-41 at Satkhira and battalion-1 in Sundarban.
The soldiers were taken first to Khulna sector headquarters and then sent to Dhaka with police escort, sources said.
Contacted, Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Mahbubur Rashid of battalion-41 confirmed it.
Earlier, around 2,00 jawans were sent to Dhaka from different BDR camps across the country.