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BNP leader Tarique Rahman had assured Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan and his associates of a safe escape after carrying out the grenade attack on an Awami League rally in 2004, a witness told a Dhaka court on Sunday.
Inspector of Criminal Investigation Department Abu Hena Md Yusuf said this while giving his deposition before the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 as a witness.
The inspector claimed that Mufti Hannan told him about Tarique’s assurance when the Huji chief was on remand in Ramna Batamul carnage case.
After recording his deposition for over an hour, Judge Shahed Nuruddin fixed June 3 for next hearing of the case.
He gave his deposition as the first prosecution witness against the accused in supplementary charge-sheet.
Twenty-six of 52, including former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, now in custody, were produced before the court while seven other accused including former Dhaka City Corporation ward councillor Ariful Islam Arif, now on bail, were also present at the court.
CID included Yusuf in the charge sheets as the prosecution witnesses on July 3 in 2011 since he was present at the rally on Bangabandhu Avenue when the grenade attack was carried out on August 21, 2004.
Twenty-four people, including Awami League leader Ivy Rahman, were killed and around 200 others injured in the grisly grenade attack on an AL rally at Bangabandhu Avenue on August 21, 2004. The then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the attack.
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