BDR Mutiny: 611 BDR jawans jailed to various terms
Dhaka, June 16 (UNB) – A special court here on Saturday sentenced 611 jawans of 13 Battalion of BDR (now Border Guard Bangladesh) to different jail terms ranging from four months to seven years for their involvement in the bloody mutiny at Pilkhana headquarters in 2009.
The three-member Special Court-8, led by Brigadier General Abu Sayeed Khan, also fined the convicts Tk 100 each. It also acquitted 10 other accused.
The court started delivering the verdict at about 10 am and concluded it at about 1:45 pm with a 10-minute break.
Two other members of the special court were Lt Col Shahidul Alam and Major Zahidur Rahman. Deputy Attorney General Biswa Dev Chakraborty assisted the court as a representative of the Attorney General.
Fifty-five of the convicts were jailed for seven years, 10 for six years and six months, 41 for six years, three for five years and six months, 66 for five years, one for four years and six months, 73 for four years, 21 for three years and six months, 127 for three years, 29 for two years and six months, 114 for two years, 12 for one year and six months, 28 for one year, 18 for six months and 13 for four months.
Subedar Farid Uddin Ahmed pressed charges against 623 BDR jawans on April 15, 2010 and the special court took cognisance of the charges on the same day.
Two of the accused died during the trial.
The special court acquitted 10 jawans after six of them pleaded guilty and the charges against the others could not be proved.
A total of 73 people, including 57 army officers, were killed during the bloody mutiny at Pilkhana on February 25-26 in 2009.
Hundreds of BDR men rose up in armed revolt at Darbar Hall on February 25 during the three-day-long ‘BDR Week’ inside the Pilkhana headquarters.
They staged the mutiny over low pay and poor condition, and the uprising sparked off mutinous demonstrations in other establishments of the paramilitary border force across the country.
The mutiny finally ended the next day (February 26) with the surrender of the firearms and grenades through negotiations between the government and the BDR rebels.
After the mutiny, the BDR was renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
The three-member Special Court-8, led by Brigadier General Abu Sayeed Khan, also fined the convicts Tk 100 each. It also acquitted 10 other accused.
The court started delivering the verdict at about 10 am and concluded it at about 1:45 pm with a 10-minute break.
Two other members of the special court were Lt Col Shahidul Alam and Major Zahidur Rahman. Deputy Attorney General Biswa Dev Chakraborty assisted the court as a representative of the Attorney General.
Fifty-five of the convicts were jailed for seven years, 10 for six years and six months, 41 for six years, three for five years and six months, 66 for five years, one for four years and six months, 73 for four years, 21 for three years and six months, 127 for three years, 29 for two years and six months, 114 for two years, 12 for one year and six months, 28 for one year, 18 for six months and 13 for four months.
Subedar Farid Uddin Ahmed pressed charges against 623 BDR jawans on April 15, 2010 and the special court took cognisance of the charges on the same day.
Two of the accused died during the trial.
The special court acquitted 10 jawans after six of them pleaded guilty and the charges against the others could not be proved.
A total of 73 people, including 57 army officers, were killed during the bloody mutiny at Pilkhana on February 25-26 in 2009.
Hundreds of BDR men rose up in armed revolt at Darbar Hall on February 25 during the three-day-long ‘BDR Week’ inside the Pilkhana headquarters.
They staged the mutiny over low pay and poor condition, and the uprising sparked off mutinous demonstrations in other establishments of the paramilitary border force across the country.
The mutiny finally ended the next day (February 26) with the surrender of the firearms and grenades through negotiations between the government and the BDR rebels.
After the mutiny, the BDR was renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
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