‘Hasina regime cops gave us 2 decisions: Assist arrest protesters or be shot useless’ | Kolkata Information

KOLKATA: Bangladesh Nationalist Social gathering (BNP) staff Nizamuddin Minto and Zakir Hossain in Dhaka had been arrested on July 22. They walked out of Dhaka Central Jail on Wednesday after the Awami League govt collapsed and all prisoners arrested through the month-long protests had been launched.
Whereas Minto works within the vehicle business, Zakir is within the cable enterprise.Each helped the protesting college students through the motion in Dhaka, with Minto distributing ingesting water amongst them and Zakir getting them biryani.
Recounting the times of horror, Minto instructed TOI from Dhaka: “At 12.30am on July 22, a bunch of policemen in plainclothes barged into our room and pointed a pistol at me and my good friend, Zakir. One of many officers instructed us we had been below arrest and that they might kill us as we had apparently killed many policemen. The officers stated that they had already killed 25 youths, and that we might be quantity 26 and No. 27.”
“We had been hauled out of the room and packed inside a 14-seater bus. There have been 18-20 armed CID personnel round us. As soon as contained in the bus, they handcuffed us and administered electrical shock with some gadget, demanding to know the whereabouts of among the protesters,” Minto stated.
“We had been then taken to the Postogola bridge over the Buriganga river and had been requested to face on the railing. We got two decisions —both assist them arrest at the very least 10 protesters or be shot. We stated we might cooperate. We had been taken to the CID headquarters at Malibagh in Dhaka and had been put inside a cell, the place 5 others had been there. We’d be interrogated thrice a day, throughout which they might abuse us and assault us, attempting to extract particulars of the agitation,” he stated.
Minto stated, “After 4 days of torture, we had been taken to courtroom and despatched to Dhaka Central Jail. On Aug 5, we began getting details about the happenings outdoors. We heard Sheikh Hasina had fled the nation. We had been in a cell, known as Padma. We may hear thunderous cheers from the adjoining cell, Meghna. The subsequent morning, we had been instructed we might be launched. ”