A Chittagong court yesterday ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to further investigate two cases filed against BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and others in connection with arson and vandalism in 2010.
District and Sessions Judge AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud ordered further investigation of the cases and referred to Chief Judicial Magistrate Munshi Mashiur Rahman to decide which agency should be given the task.
Later, on a plea made by the prosecution to the chief judicial magistrate the responsibility was given to the CID, said public prosecutor Abul Hashem.
On November 7, 2010, some vehicles were vandalised and torched on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Banshbaria and Salimpur areas under Sitakunda by some unknown people. They were protesting the arrest rumour of Salauddin Quader and the government’s bar on a BNP rally at Paltan in Dhaka.
Sub-Inspector Golam Faruk Bhuiyan of Sitakunda police lodged the two cases over the incident of violence. Four persons were detained in this connection. Two of them confessed that they had carried out the attacks under the order of Salauddin Quader, a former lawmaker from Raozan.
The BNP leader was awarded death penalty on October 1 last year for committing war crimes in 1971.
Police submitted the charge sheets mentioning Salauddin Quader as the prime accused. Ten others have been made accused in the Banshbaria incident while six others in the Salimpur one.
