Two Bangladesh Rifles members were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital today as they were allegedly tortured during questioning at Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell in the BDR mutiny case.
Ailing BDR members are identified as sepoy Reazul Islam, 22, of Battalion-5 in Khagrachhari, and sepoy Mohammad Arafat, 24, of Battalion-13 in Dhaka.
Both the jawans were present at Pilkhana headquarters during the mutiny on February 25-26.
DMCH sources said members of the TFI cell and New Market police admitted them at the DMCH around 5:00pm. They bore severe injury marks at their knees.
According to hospital sources the injury marks showed that they faced torture.
While laying on the DMCH bed, one of the BDR jawans said, "We were tortured brutally during the interrogation since taken to the TFI cell on Thursday."
New Market police told The Daily Star, "We were informed from the Pilkhana over phone about the sickness of two BDR jawans and our forces helped them to got admission to hospital."
Senior assistant superintendent of police Abdul Kahar Akand of CID, who is the main investigating officer of the mutiny case, said, "We have taken 16 more jawans on Thursday for interrogation under TFI cell."
Asked, the CID ASP said, "I hard about the sickness of two jawans but yet to know about the cause as they were being interrogated under TFI cell."
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