Online Desk :  After serving 16 years, a total of 168 former members of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) were released from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail in Gazipur on bail on Thursday in an explosive case related to BDR mutiny. Their families have been waiting at the main of the jail since morning to receive them. The prisoners are coming out one after another.

Of the 168, 42 were released from Dhaka Central Jail, 26 from Kashimpur-1, 89 from Kashimpur-2 and 12 from Kashimpur high security. “After reaching the necessary documents related to their release, the jail authorities released the prisoner,” said additional prison inspector general Col Mohammad Mostafa Kamal. Earlier on January 21, Dhaka Special Tribunal-1 Judge Md Ibrahim Miah announced the name of 178 who granted bail in a case related to explosives. But the prison authorities got the list of 168.

The February 2009 BDR mutiny left 74 people, including 57 army officers, dead at its headquarters at Pilkhana in the capital. Two separate cases-murder and explosive– were filed over the incident. Though their punishment in the murder case was finished, but they were not released due to the another case.