BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday underscored the need for finding out facts behind the intelligence failure in detecting the impending BDR mutiny in 2009.

“The facts behind the intelligence failure will have to be found out through a transparent investigation,” Fakhrul said. He was addressing a programme at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the capital.

The demand came a day after the High Court, in its observation on the BDR carnage case, asked the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to form a probe body  to investigate why the intelligence unit of the then BDR failed to detect the impending 2009 mutiny.

Claiming that a deep-rooted conspiracy was on to turn the country into a dysfunctional one, Fakhrul stressed the need for probing the matter.

Fakhrul also raised a question about the motive saying that the mutiny took place when a new government was formed. “What was its motive? Was it carried out only to push the then government or the country into instability?”

He also criticised the then concerned authorities for not taking an immediate action to deal with the mutiny and said many probe bodies were formed in this connection but no reports have been made public.

“We have a right to know about the matter,” Fakhrul said.