Special Correspondent :
The DMP’s elite Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit [CTTCU], which is specialized in intelligence-led proactive investigation, has been assigned to initiate a full-scale probe into the incident of emergency landing of PM’s plane in Turkmenistan.
The CTTCU will especially investigate whether it was an act of ‘sabotage’, for which the VVIP aircraft Boeing-777 Ranga Pravat was forced to make an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport on November 27, officials told The New Nation on Wednesday.
Deputy Commissioner of CTTCU Mohibul Alam said the Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Asaduzzaman Mia has assigned CTTCU to investigate the case. “We’ll start investigation soon after getting case docket from the Airport Police Station,” he said.
Earlier on Tuesday late night, Director [maintenance and engineering] of Bangladesh Biman Wing Commander [retd] MM Asaduzzaman filed the case with Airport Police Station against its nine suspended staff, including eight engineers and one technician. Besides, some other unknown persons have also been implicated in the case.
The number of the case is 21, which has been recorded under 109, 118, 120 [kha] and 278 of CrPC and 15 [3] articles of Special Power Act 1974, officials said. Assistant Commissioner [Airport Zone] of DMP Md Ruhul Amin said the case has been recorded with the concerned police station and the accused will be arrested by the assigned law enforcement agency once the investigation starts.
The nine persons who are directly charge in the case are: Chief Engineer [production] Debesh Chowdhury, Chief Engineer [quality assurance] SA Siddique, Principal Engineer [maintenance and sustem control] Billal Hossain, Engineers SM Rokonuzaman, Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain and Technician Siddiqur Rahman. When contacted, Officer-in-Charge of Airport Police Station Noor-e-Azam said last night that they were taking preparation to transfer the case to the CTTCU. “We will hand over the relevant documents of the case to the CTTCU on Thursday,” the OC said. “In the case documents, the permanent and present addresses of the accused persons were not given in details. So, we’re now collecting their particulars. In the case filed by Biman authority, it has been mentioned that the suspended nine officials in connivance with some other unidentified persons have planned to assassinate PM Sheikh Hasina,” the OC further said.
Earlier on Wednesday morning, a Dhaka court fixed January 12 to submit probe report in a case filed in connection with emergency landing of the aircraft carrying PM Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi fixed that after hearing in the case.
The court ordered OC of Airport Police Station Nure Alam Mia to submit probe report within January 12.
The VVIP plane had faced difficulty when a nut of a bolt in the oil passing pipe in engine no-01 was slacked almost in half with dropping the lubricant at zero level. It was noticed after the plane crossed Karachi flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The plane changed its route. After repairing, the flight reached Budapest in four hours delay.
After returning country, the PM told the Parliament on December 9 that Boeing Co. had informed them such an incident never happened in their 6,000 planes flying around the world. “It was created by humans, not a technical fault,” the PM said.
Echoing the same, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon also told the National Parliament that “human involvement” was behind the technical fault in the VVIP plane.
The DMP’s elite Counter-Terrorism and Transnational Crime Unit [CTTCU], which is specialized in intelligence-led proactive investigation, has been assigned to initiate a full-scale probe into the incident of emergency landing of PM’s plane in Turkmenistan.
The CTTCU will especially investigate whether it was an act of ‘sabotage’, for which the VVIP aircraft Boeing-777 Ranga Pravat was forced to make an emergency landing at Ashgabat International Airport on November 27, officials told The New Nation on Wednesday.
Deputy Commissioner of CTTCU Mohibul Alam said the Commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Asaduzzaman Mia has assigned CTTCU to investigate the case. “We’ll start investigation soon after getting case docket from the Airport Police Station,” he said.
Earlier on Tuesday late night, Director [maintenance and engineering] of Bangladesh Biman Wing Commander [retd] MM Asaduzzaman filed the case with Airport Police Station against its nine suspended staff, including eight engineers and one technician. Besides, some other unknown persons have also been implicated in the case.
The number of the case is 21, which has been recorded under 109, 118, 120 [kha] and 278 of CrPC and 15 [3] articles of Special Power Act 1974, officials said. Assistant Commissioner [Airport Zone] of DMP Md Ruhul Amin said the case has been recorded with the concerned police station and the accused will be arrested by the assigned law enforcement agency once the investigation starts.
The nine persons who are directly charge in the case are: Chief Engineer [production] Debesh Chowdhury, Chief Engineer [quality assurance] SA Siddique, Principal Engineer [maintenance and sustem control] Billal Hossain, Engineers SM Rokonuzaman, Samiul Haque, Lutfor Rahman, Milon Chandra Biswas, Zakir Hossain and Technician Siddiqur Rahman. When contacted, Officer-in-Charge of Airport Police Station Noor-e-Azam said last night that they were taking preparation to transfer the case to the CTTCU. “We will hand over the relevant documents of the case to the CTTCU on Thursday,” the OC said. “In the case documents, the permanent and present addresses of the accused persons were not given in details. So, we’re now collecting their particulars. In the case filed by Biman authority, it has been mentioned that the suspended nine officials in connivance with some other unidentified persons have planned to assassinate PM Sheikh Hasina,” the OC further said.
Earlier on Wednesday morning, a Dhaka court fixed January 12 to submit probe report in a case filed in connection with emergency landing of the aircraft carrying PM Sheikh Hasina. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi fixed that after hearing in the case.
The court ordered OC of Airport Police Station Nure Alam Mia to submit probe report within January 12.
The VVIP plane had faced difficulty when a nut of a bolt in the oil passing pipe in engine no-01 was slacked almost in half with dropping the lubricant at zero level. It was noticed after the plane crossed Karachi flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. The plane changed its route. After repairing, the flight reached Budapest in four hours delay.
After returning country, the PM told the Parliament on December 9 that Boeing Co. had informed them such an incident never happened in their 6,000 planes flying around the world. “It was created by humans, not a technical fault,” the PM said.
Echoing the same, Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon also told the National Parliament that “human involvement” was behind the technical fault in the VVIP plane.
