Four convicts, including Jamaat-e-Islami ameer and war crimes accused Matiur Rahman Nizami and former State Minister for Home Affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, of the sensational 10-truck arms cases were taken to Kashimpur Jail and Dhaka Central Jail on Saturday.
A microbus carrying Nizami, also a former minister, and Babar reached Kashimpur Jail around 6:45pm and sent to the jail unit No-1, sources at the jail said.
Two other condemned convicts — former DGFI (Directorate General of Forces Intelligence) director Maj Gen (retd) Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury and former DG of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Brig Gen (retd) Abdur Rahim –- were also taken to Dhaka Central Jail at 5:40pm, said Farman Ali, senior jail super of the jail.
Three microbuses with the four condemned convicts under a strong police escort started for Kashimpur Jail and Dhaka Central Jail from Chittagong at about 10:45 am, said Rafiqul Quader, the jailer of Chittagong Central Jail.
Earlier, a Chittagong court here on Thursday sentenced 14 people, including Matiur Rahman Nizami and Lutfozzaman Babar, to death in the sensational 10-truck arms smuggling case, after 10 years of the arms recovery.
On April 1, 2004, 10 trucks of arms were seized from two vessels at the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd jetty.
Two cases — one for arms possessing and another for arms smuggling — were filed with Karnaphuli Police Station under the Special Powers Act and the Arms Act the following day.
Source: UNBConnect
