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DHAKA, Jan 23, 2025 (BSS) – A total of 168 Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel walked out of four separate jails in Dhaka and Gazipur districts on bail in the explosive case linked to 2009 BDR carnage.
“We released 127 BGB members from prisons at Kashimpur, Gazipur and 41 from Dhaka Central Jail, Keraniganj today,” AIG Development of Prisons Headquarter MD. Jannat-Ul-Farhad told BSS today.
A total of 168 BGB personnel out of 178 who got bail in explosive case in the BDR mutiny, were released from the jails today.
Talking to BSS, Senior Jail Super of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail Gazipur Muhammad Abdullah Al-Mamun said that they released 13 BGB personnel from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail, Gazipur, 25 from Kashimpur Central Jail-1 and 89 from Kashimpur Central Jail-2 today after scrutinizing the necessary bail documents.
Their release from the jails started from 10am and ended around 2:30pm, he said.
Deputy Jailer Abu Eusuf of Dhaka Central Jail confirmed that they released 41 BGB men from the jail today.
The BDR mutiny took place inside the then Bangladesh Rifles (BDR),
now BGB, Pilkhana Headquarters on February 25-26, 2009, in which 74
people including 57 army officials were killed.
Two separate cases -- one murder and one explosive case -- were filed in
this connection.
