Trial of Bogra arms haul cases resumes

Trial in connection with the huge arms cache in the northern town of Bogra resumed on Wednesday, after six years of virtual suspension of the sensational case, for which six persons were formally charged with the crime.
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A big chunk of illegal arms were seized from a truck near a brick kiln under Kahalu upazila of the district on the night of June 27, 2003.
Police recovered 99,969 rounds of Chinese rifle
bullet and 174 kilogrammes of explosives from the truck.
After years of investigation, police gave chargesheet against six persons in four separate
cases, but the trial could
not be processed as one of the accused filed a writ
petition with High
Court and got a stay order from it.
However, the court in a recent step cleared the stay order for three cases after
an accused, Altu Miah,
who is now in jail, filed petition against the order.
As a result, acting public prosecutor Advocate Helalur Rahman said, the hearing of the three cases out of the total four started on Wednesday.
A witness, Mozam Maondal, gave a partial deposition before the Special Tribunal,
while Judge Kazi Shahina Nigar recorded the
statement.
Source : New Age