Hearing on charge-framing against 850 accused including 23 civilians in Pilkhana carnage case resumed Tuesday morning at a Dhaka court.
Hearing on charge-framing against 850 accused including 23 civilians
in Pilkhana carnage case resumed Tuesday morning at a Dhaka court.
The
second day’s indictment hearing began around 9:45am at the makeshift
court in Bakshi Bazar with the prosecution reading out charges against
the defendants. It read out individual charges against 140 people till
11:35am.
Earlier on April 12, the prosecution read out
charges against 80 accused including prime accused deputy assistant
director Towhidul Alam and appealed to the Court of Metropolitan
Sessions Judge, Dhaka to frame charges against them.
Of the total 850 accused, two are dead and 21 have been absconding.
At
least 74 people including 57 army officers were killed in the February
25-26 carnage in 2009 at the Pilkhana headquarters of the Border Guard
Bangladesh (BGB), previously BDR.
