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46 B'deshi border guards jailed for 2009 bloody mutiny

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

New Delhi, Jan 14, IRNA -- A special Bangladeshi court on Thursday jailed 46 border guards for a maximum of seven years for their involvement in the 2009 bloody mutiny that killed 74 people, including 57 army officers.

Forty-six jawans of the 29 Rifles Battalion of Border Guard Bangladesh were sentenced to jail terms ranging from four months to seven years for their involvement in the mutiny in Matiranga sub-division in Chittagong's Khagrachhari district that led to the killing of 57 army officers, including the then BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmed.

The Special Court-15, headed by Chittagong Sector Commander Lt Col Zahedur Rahamn, fined them Tk 100 each, pti reported.

However, it acquitted border guard Nayak Md Hanif as charges were not proved against him.

At least 70 people, including 57 army officials deputed at the BGB Headquarters at Peelkhana in the capital were killed in bloody BDR mutiny on 25th-26th February, 2009.

The BDR has been renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) with a new combat uniform as part of a reform process.

Some 3,500 border guards have been facing trial in 40 cases countrywide over the mutiny that spread to battalions outside Dhaka.

Trial of crimes like murders and looting during the rebellion are being held under civil law.

In 2009, Bangladesh set up six 'special courts' to try the rebellious soldiers for the bloody mutiny by the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR).

The rebellious soldiers had claimed that a sense of 'deprivation' had prompted them to stage the mutiny even as they demanded the border force should be freed from 'military domination'.