The Bangladesh’s excessive courtroom bench will hear an attraction within the 2004 arms haul case on October 18, including to the troubles of the nation’s Opposition – the Bangladesh Nationalist Social gathering (BNP) and its ally, the Jamaat-e-Islami.
These weapons had been allegedly introduced from China for the Assam separatist group, ULFA. Two of the convicts are lifeless.
High functionaries of the BNP-JAMAAT authorities, together with two ministers, had been discovered concerned and later convicted for involvement within the sensational case.
In Bangladesh, if a decrease courtroom sentences an individual to demise, the judgment is examined by the excessive courtroom.
The case paperwork and judgment have reached the excessive courtroom whereas a number of convicts within the case have filed separate appeals with the courtroom difficult the sooner verdict in opposition to them.
On January 16, the demise reference and attraction of the accused sentenced to demise had been listed on the Excessive Courtroom’s agenda.
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THE 2004 ARMS HAUL CASE
In April 2004, when the BNP-Jamaat coalition was in energy within the nation, an enormous consignment of arms was seized from the CUFL Ghat within the port metropolis of Chittagong.
Ten vans had been lined as much as carry the consignment. Following the restoration, two circumstances had been filed with the police in Karnaphuli beneath the Arms Act and the Particular Powers Act.
On January 30, 2014, the Chattogram Metropolitan Classes Decide Courtroom and Particular Tribunal-1 Decide SM Mojibur Rahman sentenced 14 individuals, together with two ministers of the BNP-JAMAAT coalition, to demise beneath the Particular Powers Act. Underneath the Arms Act, the 14 had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
On February 4, 2014, the 514-page verdict within the two circumstances was revealed.
Two of the convicts, Jamaat Amir and former agriculture minister Motiur Rahman Nizami, walked to the gallows when convicted within the 1971 conflict crimes trials for atrocities in opposition to Bengalis in collaboration with the Pakistan Military. One other convict – a former prime intelligence official, Abdur Rahim – died of Covid-19. The chief of a navy wing, Paresh Barua, additionally convicted within the case, has not appealed.
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Apparently, on Wednesday, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sharma credited the present Bangladesh premier and Awami League Chief, Sheikh Hasina, for taking sufficient steps that helped curb militancy and terrorism in Assam.
Lauding the prime minister’s efforts, Sarma mentioned the crackdown by the Bangladesh authorities on the rebel group United Liberation Entrance of Asom (ULFA) contained in the nation has “tremendously helped Assam”.
The attraction will flip the main target again on the lively patronage to gunrunning and terrorism in the course of the BNP-JAMAAT rule between 2001 and 2006.
For the reason that Chittagong arms seizure was adopted by the lethal grenade assault on an Awami League rally inside 4 months – an assault that just about killed Sheikh Hasina, it uncovered the unholy alliance Tarique Rahman held with the pro-Pak Jamaat get together to destroy the secular polity of the nation.
It can additionally flip the lights on to the BNP’s de-facto chief, Tarique Rahman, who has been residing in London for over a decade to evade punishment after conviction within the 2004 grenade assault on Sheikh Hasina’s rally that killed nearly 30 Awami League leaders and activists. These interesting the demise sentence, together with former junior house minister Lutfor Zaman Babar, had been shut confidantes of Tarique who loved an in depth relationship with Pakistan’s spy company ISI.
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