The investigators on Thursday brought charges against 22 more Bangladesh Rifles soldiers in connection with last week�s rebellion at the headquarters of the border guards while search teams seized more arms and ammunition from inside the complex.
But they could not ascertain yet how many arms and ammunition had slipped out during the BDR rebellion. Nine days after the carnage, the teams seized a few arms and ammunition from inside the BDR headquarters on Thursday.
Earlier, army troops were deployed alongside the civil administration to recover the weapons and ammunition, which went missing during the February 25-26 troubles.
Tasked with investigation of the BDR carnage, officials at the Criminal Investigation Department said that their probe was in progress.
They brought charge against the 22 soldiers after examining video footages, newspaper photographs and statements made by the soldiers already arrested by the police, according to the investigators. The Rapid Action Battalion officers said they had also spotted 100 more soldiers involved in the rebellion on the basis of video footages.
The CID remanded seven accused, including deputy assistant director of BDR Syed Tawhidul Alam, the prime suspect, in its custody Monday after they were arrested from different places of the city.
?The probe was in progress as each member of investigation teams was given specific responsibility,� an inspector of the CID told reporters after visiting the BDR headquarters.
Last week�s rebellion by the paramilitary troops against their commanders, drawn from the regular army, left at least 71 people, mostly army officers, killed.
Sources close to the investigators said that Tawhid, the prime accused in the case filed with Lalbagh police station on Saturday in connection with the killings, looting, arson and hostage taking, admitted that he had information that such incident might take place inside the BDR headquarters.
But, he said, he had declined to be involved in the rebellion. Towhid and six others were remanded in custody for seven days. More than 450 others remained inside the BDR headquarters after weapons surrender on February 26.
The CID probe teams also spotted 14 others, some of whom had meetings with the ministers and the prime minister for negotiating surrender during the siege of the headquarters. They will also be shown arrested in the case, in which more than 1,000 unnamed soldiers were accused of the carnage.
Besides the CID probes, a high-powered investigation team headed by a retired secretary, Anis-uz-Zaman, also held a meeting Thursday. The 11-member committee also visited the rebellion site in search of evidence. The committee, reconstituted Tuesday, is supposed to submit its report in a week.
Another investigation team, commissioned by the army, was also collecting information.
The search teams seized a few arms and ammunition from inside the BDR headquarters Thursday. They believe more arms and ammunition remained missing.
�We are still searching for arms, ammunition and explosives inside the headquarters,� said Major Imran, a member of the team. He said that almost everyday, they were finding a few arms and ammunition, including grenades, inside the BDR headquarters.
The search team members said that the evidence indicated that arms and ammunition had gone missing from four armouries inside the headquarters on the first day of the rebellion. Bu the number and quantities of the missing weapons and explosives could not be ascertained.�
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