Touhid and some other 'Mutiny leaders' being grilled

A Dhaka court gave the CID seven days Wednesday to question the alleged leader of the Feb 25-26 BDR mutiny, DAD Touhidul Alam, and four others. The five, arrested by RAB the day before, were produced before the CMM's Court at noon, in bullet-proof vests and helmets with hands cuffed behind their backs.

CID officials had requested to remand them 10 days for interrogation. Dhaka chief metropolitan Md Abdur Rahim granted seven days, reports Bdnews24 from Dhaka

CID officials had already begun grilling the five after Rapid Action Battalion handed them over after their arrest. "They have already faced primary questioning," CID official Abdul Qahhar Akhand had told bdnews24.com before the five were taken to court.

Touhid, a deputy assistant director of the border force, had led a 'rebel team' in negotiations with the government during 33-hour mutiny that was quelled last Thursday. Two days later, the government sued him and five others, charging them with treason, murder, arson and looting. DAD Abdur Rahim, arrested and remanded alongside Touhid, was also named in the case filed by Lalbagh police on Feb 28.

The other three in remand—Habilder Azad Ali, Nayek Md Feroz Ahmed and Sepoy Zahir Hossain—were not among those initially named in the case that also accuses over 1,000 'unnamed' BDR men.