Seizure lists in 3 cases against Col Faruk yet to be submitted
Court Correspondent
The prosecution is yet to submit seizure lists of three cases filed against the condemned prisoner in the Bangabandhu murder case, Lt Colonel (dismissed) Syed Farukur Rahman, even after issuance of several court directives.The court could not proceed with the case due to the non-exhibition of the seizure lists during the deposition of the prosecution witnesses. Meanwhile, a Dhaka court retracted one of the cases into trial from judgement delay due to non-exhibition of the seizure lists. Judge Monzurul Bachhid of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court on Sunday directed the Public Prosecutor (PP) and Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) again to submit the seizure lists on March 6. In his order, the judge mentioned the seizure lists of the case filed under the Explosive Substances Act were not produced before the court though the case was to be proved on the basis of the pieces of evidence and seizure lists. Moreover, the pieces of evidence and seizure lists are important documents for proving the allegations against the accused. So the case was retracted from judgement, the judge said. When contacted, the conducting APP Mohammad Jalal Uddin Ahmed told The Daily Star he got the case diary (CD) without the seizure lists from Quamrul Islam, the PP of the Awami League regime. But he could not give a satisfactory answer to why he did not inform the court even though the court directed him to submit it on January 14, 2004 and May 29 last year. Quamrul Islam however denied the allegation brought against him. He said the PP and the APP received the CD after scrutinising it. A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) along with the then officer-in-charge (OC) of Cantonment Police Station raided Faruk's house at DOHS in the capital around 3:45am on August 18, 1996. Police seized a revolver, a shotgun, an airgun, a Stengun, 616 bullets, eight international passports, 2,830 Pakistani rupees and 62.75 Libyan dinars at his house. Four cases were filed with Cantonment Police Station, one under the Arms Act, one under the Foreign Currency Control Act, one under the Explosive Substances Act and the other under the Special Powers Act. On May 9 last year, the same court acquitted Faruk of charges in a case filed for possessing foreign currencies, as the charges brought against him were not proved. Another court on October 20, 2004 sentenced Faruk to life imprisonment in the Jail Killing Case.
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