Discrepancies prolong the Arges grenade recovery case

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Dipu Sarwar
Published : 07:30, Feb 09, 2019 | Updated : 14:33, Feb 09, 2019

The identity of one person of the six accused in the 2003 Arges grenade recovery, is still shrouded in mystery. There is one person called Lincoln about whom the charge sheet does not have any details.
Bangla Tribune investigation reveals that Lincoln’s actual name is Leon. About nine years ago, his dead body was recovered from T&T field in Korail.
Previously, he was arrested by law enforcers from a mosque in Narayanganj. Hailing from Chittagong, he was known in Korail slum, Gulshan, Badda and Banani as a professional killer. He was a cohort of Mukul, a leading accused in the Arges grenade recovery case.
An official investigating the case, said, “The destination of the grenades was ULFA and HUJI and Kuril was a transit point. But before they could reach the destination, the police stepped in and thwarted the plan.”
“Though they did not touch the explosives, they used the weapons, including the AK-47 rifle and the .32 pistol,” said the official.
The weapons were being unloaded in front of a shop called Tulir Porosh – a signboard writing shop owned by Mehedi Hassan, Manik – also an accused in the case.
Manik has denied any link with the explosive-related incident.
He emphatically stated that the charge-sheet has presented him in a distorted way.
“I was asleep on the morning of Nov 30, 2003, when the police came and picked me up around 7-7: 30 am in the morning.”
In prison, I was kept in the same cell as another accused Rubel, but I did not know him.
During interrogation, I said that I have been falsely implicated in the case, said Manik.
However, Manik knew another accused, Jahangir, who was involved in the rent a car trade.
Manik now has a photo studio in Kuril and says that before the Arges grenade case, there wasn’t any case against him.
The protracted case creates torment in my life, he added.
Legal adviser, advocate Tuhin Howlader, says, “There are a lot of faults in the Arges explosive case starting with discrepancies between charge sheet and confessions by the accused.”
In this case, the court has changed several times and this requires extra time since all evidence has to be re-examined, said the legal adviser, adding, “The accused are taking advantage of this delay.”

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