A Chittagong court Thursday extended 36 days more time for further comprehensive inquiry into the sensational 10-truckload of arms and ammunition haul case on the ground of special emphasis on ascertaining the vessel which carried the arms into Bangladesh territory from abroad.
Criminal Investigation Department filed a petition before the Court of Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Shamsul Islam seeking 90 days time extension on February 20. The court sought case diary for its progress but rebuked the investigation officer of the case and senior assistant superintendent of police Moniruzzaman for failing to submit CD before the court on February 22.
The metropolitan public prosecutor Kamal Uddin Ahmed who recommended the petition informed the court that they need 90 days more time for identifying the foreign vessel which carried the arms as investigation agency failed to dig it out.
The state pleader also informed the court that the earlier interrogation process was delayed because it needed more time to complete interrogation of the individual concerned including former additional secretary of the ministry of industries Nurul Amin, former home secretary Omar Faruk, former director general of DGFI Sadek Hassain Rumi and managing director of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited Mohosin Uddin Talukdar.
However, the court after hearing the time petition Thursday granted 36 days more time for extensive inquiry into the arms haul.
With the Thursday’s one it is the 12th round of time extension for carrying out detailed investigation into the much-talked-about abortive but the country’s biggest arms and ammunition smuggling case on April 1 in 2004.
Meanwhile, the detained former MD of CUFL Mohosin Uddin Talukdar was taken to Dhaka from Chittagong Wednesday to quiz him in Joint Interrogation cell when the court on February 15 granted five-day remand.
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