A bench of the Bangladesh High Court has acquitted former minister Lutfozaman Babar and five others in the 2004 Chattogram arms seizure case. According to Prothom Alo, the death sentence of banned terrorist organization ULFA chief Paresh Barua has been reduced to life imprisonment. This case pertains to 10 trucks of arms and ammunition brought to terrorist organizations working against India. A large consignment of weapons was seized in Bangladesh in 2004, during the rule of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami. There was evidence of the involvement of then Home Affairs Minister Lutfozaman Babar in arms smuggling to anti-India forces.
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The seized weapons included over 27,000 grenades, 150 rocket launchers, over 11 lakh rounds of ammunition, 1,100 submachine guns and 11.41 million rounds of ammunition. A two-member High Court bench commuted the sentence of ULFA leader Paresh Baruah, who was awarded death sentence following a trial in absentia – now believed to be living in China, a government lawyer said. He has been sentenced to life imprisonment. , On the bench. The High Court bench of Justice Mustafa Zaman Islam and Justice Nasreen Akhtar acquitted former minister of state for home Lutfuzzaman Babar and six others who were awarded death sentence after the death reference hearing, he said.
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The five others who escaped the gallows are former Director General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) retired Major General Rezakul Haider Choudhary, former managing director of the state-run Fertilizer Plant (CUFL) Mohsin Talukdar, its general manager Enamul Haq, former additional secretary of the state-run Fertilizer Plant (CUFL). Industries Ministry Nurul Amin and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Motiur Rehman Nizami. It was said that the plant site was used for trans-shipment of weapons for ULFA. Former head of Bangladesh’s national security intelligence, former Brigadier General Abdur Rahim, who was also a former director of the DGFI, was also sentenced to death, but died a normal death in prison as the appeal and death sentence proceedings were underway. . However, Nizami, a former minister in the previous Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat coalition government, was hanged several years ago on charges of crimes against humanity while siding with Pakistani troops during Bangladesh’s 1971 liberation war. His party was against the country. Babar’s lawyer Shishir Manir earlier told the bench that his client was falsely implicated in the case for political reasons and the prosecution could not produce any credible evidence or credible witnesses to support the charges leveled against him.
