Two Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) members were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday after they were allegedly tortured by the members of Task Force for Interrogation (TFI) cell during questioning into the BDR mutiny case.
The ailing BDR members are Reazul Islam, 22, of Battalion-5 in Khagrachhari, and Mohammad Arafat, 24, of Battalion-13 in Dhaka.
Both the jawans were present at BDR Headquarters during the mutiny on February 25-26.
DMCH sources said members of the TFI cell and New Market police admitted them at around 5:00pm.
They bore severe injury marks on their knees, which indicate they suffered torture, sources added.
While lying on the DMCH bed, one of the BDR jawans said, "We were tortured brutally during the interrogation since we had been taken to the TFI cell on Thursday."
New Market Police Station officer-in-charge told The Daily Star, "We were told from Pilkhana over phone about the sickness of two BDR jawans and then our men took the jawans to hospital."
Asked about the sickness of the two jawans, Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police Abdul Kahar Akand of CID said, "I heard about the sickness but yet to know the cause as they were being interrogated under TFI cell."
"We have taken 16 more jawans on Thursday for interrogation under TFI cell," Akand, also the main investigating officer of the mutiny case, added.