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168 BDR members released from jail after 15.5 years

Senior Reporter || risingbd.com

Published: 12:08, 23 January 2025   Update: 12:46, 23 January 2025
168 BDR members released from jail after 15.5 years

A total of 168 individuals were released from jail after 15.5 years in an explosive case filed over the BDR mutiny.

Of them, 41 former BDR members released from Dhaka central jail, 26 from Kashimpur-1, 89 from Kashimpur-2, 12 from Kashimpur high-security jail were released on Thursday (January 23).

Dhaka Range DIG prison Md Jahangir Kabir told risingbd that they received a list of 168 individuals. Later, steps were taken to release them.

Earlier on January 19, a Dhaka tribunal granted bail to 178 individuals accused in an explosives case filed in connection with the 2009 Pilkhana carnage.

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