A
former BDR man holds his hands high cheering his acquittal today as the
prosecution failed to prove the charges against him and 270 others out
of 850 accused in the Pilkhana carnage case. A court sentenced death to
152 while 160 others were given life imprisonment for their role for
their role in the February 2009 carnage at headquarters of the then
paramilitary force now renamed Border Guard Bangladesh. Photo: Amran
Hossain
As the prosecution has failed to prove the charges against 271 out of
850 accused in the Pilkhana carnage case, the acquitted flashed V-sign
and cheered with joy inside the courtroom today.
They went out of the courtroom with a sigh of relief after Judge Md
Akhtaruzzaman pronounced the verdict, reports Bangla daily Prothom Alo.
On February 25-26 in 2009, 74 people including 57 top and mid-ranking
army officers were killed by the erstwhile BDR (now Border Border Guard
Bangladesh) personnel during a mutiny inside the BDR headquarters.
The court awarded death to 152 including a deputy assistant director
of then Bangladesh Rifles Tauhidul Islam and life-term to 160 others for
their role in the carnage.
Nabajuti Khisha, then officer-in-charge of Lalbagh police station,
filed the case on February 28 in connection with the killings.
The case was later shifted to the Criminal Investigation Department.
