Nine members of Border Guard Bangladesh, who were acquitted from the charges of BDR Mutiny of February 25-26, 2009, were released from Kashimpur jail on Tuesday, officials said.
'They were set free and reinstated in the paramilitary force in the afternoon,' the 24 BG Battalion commanding officer, Major Khan Mohammad Alauddin, told New Age.
Of the acquitted, only three pleaded guilty and four were not present at Pilkhana during the mutiny, the BGB officials said.
Subash Chandra Ghosh, the jailor of Kashimpur Central Jail unit-2, said that they were released in the afternoon following a special court order issued on June 27.
On Monday, the special court-7 chaired by the BGB director general, Major General Rafiqul Islam, acquitted nine out of 666 accused of the mutiny.
The acquitted BGB soldiers are : Havildar Abdul Khalek, Nayek Tapan Kumar Devnath, Lance Nayek Abul Kalam Azad, Sepoys Sheikh Md Shamim Reza, Mohammad Reazul Islam, Shaheen Farazi, Rabiul Islam, Emran Miah and Habibur Rahman.
So far, 72 BGB soldiers have been acquitted of the mutiny charges by different specials courts.
Source : New Age
