Maj (retd) Liakat on fresh remand

Former deputy director of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain was placed on a four-day fresh remand in connection with the sensational Chittagong arms haul case yesterday.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) prayed for a seven-day remand for him, but the court of Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Osman Gani granted the four-day remand.
This is the third time that Maj (retd) Liakat is being taken on remand in the arms smuggling case.
The interrogation of Maj (retd) Liakat will begin at CID Chittagong divisional headquarters at Dampara Police Lines within a day or two, sources said.
The former NSI deputy director had reportedly supervised the offloading of ten truckloads of arms and ammunition at Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Limited (CUFL) jetty ghat in the early hours of April 2 in 2004.
Earlier, during the interrogation at Taskforce for Interrogation (TFI) Cell in the capital, he agreed to make a confessional statement.
But he refused to do so when he was brought back to Chittagong and produced before a magistrate on June 8.