A prosecution witness who survived brush fires at village Sultanpur Dakkhin Banikpara in Rauzan of Chittagong on April 13, 1971 on Tuesday testified against detained war crimes accused BNP MP Salauddin Quader Chowdhury.
Anil Baran Dhar, prosecution witness -22, told the three-member International Crimes Tribunal-1 that an occupation army man in association with its followers, including the accused belonging to Muslim League faction of Fazlul Quader Chowdhury, came at their house on the day and asked him, his father, uncle and another neighbour to stand on a queue on their courtyard.
“As we followed their command, guns were triggered and we all fell on the ground suffering bullet wounds. I had lost my sense. When I regained sense, I saw bullets hit my left hand and back. I found my father Upedra Lal Dhar, uncle Manindra Lal Dhar and neighbour Nepal Chandra Dhar dead,” Anil recalled.
Anil told the tribunal that he later had left for village Isapur in Fatikchhari where he had to change his name as Abdul Malek for taking admission to Chittagong Medical College Hospital. During the treatment, his left hand was cut off from elbow, said Anil.
He further said he later came to know that local Muslims buried the three bullet-riddled bodies on the courtyard of one Tazendra Lal Biswas.
After Bangladesh’s independence, he had filed a case with Rauzan Police Station against Salauddin Quader Chowdhury and others for the killing episode.
Before closing his deposition, Anil identified the detained accused in the dock.
Another witness, Bono Gopal Das, also testified against Salauddin Quader as PW No.23 who corroborated the evidence of PW-21 Abul Bashar about the incident of alleged killing of injured freedom fighter Wazed by taking him at ‘Goods Hill’, the ancestral house of the accused.
Source: UNB Connect
