A Chittagong court will announce the date for delivering verdict in two cases related to the recovery of 10-truck arms and ammunition today.
Public Prosecutor (PP) Kamal Uddin Ahmed said the tribunal would declare the date for announcing the much-awaited verdict in the cases on completion of verbal arguments by the defence lawyers.
“The nation will at last be able to see the result of the prolonged trial in the cases,” he said, adding that they were optimistic of getting the verdict within few weeks.
Earlier, Judge SM Mojibur Rahman of Chittagong Metropolitan Special Tribunal 1 ordered the defence lawyers to complete their argument by today, while the Kamal Uddin Ahmed concluded his argument yesterday.
The PP, however, sought two more days for submitting his elaborate argument in written form, which was granted by the court.
On April 2, 2004, the police seized 4,930 types of sophisticated firearms, 27,020 grenades, 840 rocket launchers, 300 rockets, 2,000 grenade launching tubes, 6,392 magazines and 11,40,520 bullets when they were being loaded on to 10 trucks from two engine-boats at the jetty of the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited (CUFL).
Ahadur Rahman, the then Karnaphuli police officer-in-charge, filed the two cases on April 3, 2004 in connection with the incident, which were transferred to the criminal investigation department of police after 22 days.
The CID on June 26, 2011 submitted supplementary charge sheets following further investigation into the cases on a court directive.
Former industries minister Nizamee, former state minister for home Babar, former director generals of National Security Intelligence Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury and Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim, former NSI directors Wing Commander (retd) Shahabuddin Ahmed and Maj (retd) Liakat Hossain, and field officer Akbar Hossain, former managing director of CUFL Mohshin Talukder and its former general manager AKM Enamul Haque have remained behind the bars in the cases.