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2 held for war crimes taken on remand
UNB, Rajshahi
The two suspects arrested Friday from Berabari village in Mohanpur upazila on charges of war crime were taken on a two-day remand yesterday, as the new government initiates the process of executing its election pledge for trying the war criminals.
Rajshahi Judicial Magistrate Court passed the remand order as Mohanpur police this morning produced the two before the court, seeking five-day remand to interrogate them.
Police arrested Daud Hossain, 70, and Nur-e Anwar, 65, following a case filed against 19 persons on charge of killing 15 freedom fighters at Bogpara Mugroil in the upazila during the liberation war in 1971.
Merajul Sheikh, son of liberation-war martyr Bashiruddin Sheikh, filed the case with Additional Chief Magistrate's Court here on June 22 last year.
After preliminary investigations, police recorded the case on September 13.
Daud is a Jamaat-e Islami activist while Anwar belongs to BNP, says Aminul Islam, Mougachchi union BNP organising secretary. Seventeen others are also accused in the case, who are now on the run. In his complaint Merajul said the accused were collaborators of the then Pakistani occupation forces and comitted robbery, murder, arson and rape at Modanhati and other villages during the war. "On November 30, 1971, they abducted the 15 people who were helping freedom fighters at Bogpara Mugroil. The following morning, all of them were tied together and shot dead," it is stated in the case, instituted long 37 years after Bangladesh's independence from Pakistani rule.
The 15 martyrs are Nazrul Sheikh, Idris Sheikh, Habibur Rahman, Rashid Sheikh, Jeker Ali Sheikh, Bashir Ali Sheikh, Mofir Uddin, Fakir Uddin, Yunus Ali, Nuruzzaman, Seku Sardar, Kushab Ali, Meser Ali, Reaz Ali Sarder and Badyanath Risi.
A monument to the independence martyrs has been erected at the place of carnage later on.
Holding the belated trial of war criminals is one of the major election pledges of the ruling Awami League-led Grand Alliance and the new parliament has passed a resolution on war-crime trial.
UNB, Rajshahi
The two suspects arrested Friday from Berabari village in Mohanpur upazila on charges of war crime were taken on a two-day remand yesterday, as the new government initiates the process of executing its election pledge for trying the war criminals.
Rajshahi Judicial Magistrate Court passed the remand order as Mohanpur police this morning produced the two before the court, seeking five-day remand to interrogate them.
Police arrested Daud Hossain, 70, and Nur-e Anwar, 65, following a case filed against 19 persons on charge of killing 15 freedom fighters at Bogpara Mugroil in the upazila during the liberation war in 1971.
Merajul Sheikh, son of liberation-war martyr Bashiruddin Sheikh, filed the case with Additional Chief Magistrate's Court here on June 22 last year.
After preliminary investigations, police recorded the case on September 13.
Daud is a Jamaat-e Islami activist while Anwar belongs to BNP, says Aminul Islam, Mougachchi union BNP organising secretary. Seventeen others are also accused in the case, who are now on the run. In his complaint Merajul said the accused were collaborators of the then Pakistani occupation forces and comitted robbery, murder, arson and rape at Modanhati and other villages during the war. "On November 30, 1971, they abducted the 15 people who were helping freedom fighters at Bogpara Mugroil. The following morning, all of them were tied together and shot dead," it is stated in the case, instituted long 37 years after Bangladesh's independence from Pakistani rule.
The 15 martyrs are Nazrul Sheikh, Idris Sheikh, Habibur Rahman, Rashid Sheikh, Jeker Ali Sheikh, Bashir Ali Sheikh, Mofir Uddin, Fakir Uddin, Yunus Ali, Nuruzzaman, Seku Sardar, Kushab Ali, Meser Ali, Reaz Ali Sarder and Badyanath Risi.
A monument to the independence martyrs has been erected at the place of carnage later on.
Holding the belated trial of war criminals is one of the major election pledges of the ruling Awami League-led Grand Alliance and the new parliament has passed a resolution on war-crime trial.
