Matiur Rahman Nizami, former Minister for Industries in the last BNP regime, was shown arrested on Wednesday in two cases filed in connection with the seizure of 10 truck-loads of arms and ammunition in Chittagong on 2 April, 2004.
Metropolitan magistrate HM Fazlul Bari directed the Criminal Investigation Department of the police to show Nizami, chief of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami who has been imprisoned for committing war crimes in 1971, arrested in the cases and granted the concerned investigator the permission to interrogate him in the jail's gatehouse.
The court passed the order after hearing a petition filed by the investigation officer in the cases, Mohammed Muniruzzaman, an assistant superintendent of police at the CID, in the afternoon.
Nazrul Islam Shentu, an assistant public prosecutor, said during the hearing that though Nizami was industries minister during the incident he had had taken no steps to probe the biggest haul of arms in the country's history.
'The Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Ltd, where the arms and ammunition were unloaded, is a state-owned factory under the industries ministry. The person who was the minister at that time cannot duck his responsibility in this regard,' he added.
The police seized a total of 4,930 different types of sophisticated firearms, 27,020 grenades, 840 rocket-launchers, 300 rockets, 2,000 grenade-launching tubes, 6,392 magazines and 11,40,520 bullets while they were being loaded on to 10 trucks from two motorized boats at the jetty of the Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Ltd on 2 April, 2004.
The NSI's former directors-general Major General (Retd) Rezzakul Haider
and Brigadier General (Retd) Abdur Rahim, former directors Wing Commander (Retd) Shahabuddin Ahmed and Major (Retd) Liakat Hossain, field officer Akbar Hossain, former managing director of CUFL Mohsin Talukdar and former general manager AKM Enamul Haque are in jail in connection with the case.
A Chittagong court has also shown former State Minister for Home Affairs, Lutfuzzaman Babar, arrested in the sensational case following a petition filed by investigation officer Mohammed Moniruzzaman on 3 October last year.
Source: New Age
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