News No. 103/2015: Monday,
July 06, 2015
THE ARMY arrested a
Jumma shopkeeper and a villager yesterday in Kudukcahri, Rangamati after the
soldiers had found 26 rounds of live bullets they themselves had planted in the
shop.
According to
eyewitnesses’ accounts, at around 10: 30 a.m. a group of army
personnel led by Major Raqib, commander of Kudukchari army camp, went to the
shop of Manob Jyoti Chakma at Half bazaar, near Kudukchari bazar and put a
packet on the floor under a bench.
The shop was crowded
with people as it was a marked day, and no one suspected the army of any ill
motive, or design.
Then the army searched
the shop and found the bullets inside the packet they had planted.
The soldiers then
arrested Manob Jyoti Chakma (30) son of late Chunni Lal Chakma, the owner of
the shop, and seven others present at his shop.
They are Binimoy
Chakma (28) son of Shanti Ranjan Chakma from village Chongrachari, Kudukchari
Clinton Chakma (28) son of Bshwa Moni Chakma, Sona Raj Chakma (22) son of
Ananda Lal Chakma, Intu Chakma (22) son of Nironjeeb Chakma and his brother
Mintu Chakma (17).
They all came from
Chongrachari to buy daily necessities from bazaar.
They army took all of
them to Kudukchari camp and later released all but Manob Jyoti Chakma, the
shopkeeper, and Binimoy Chakma.
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