The incident of Hauling 10 truck arms and ammunition was held at the night of 1 April 2004 at Chittagong Urea Fertilizer Limited (CUFL), Chittagong, Bangladesh. This is the biggest smuggling of the history of Bangladesh. This is inferred that the delivery was going to United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), a militant group from Assam of India. At that period the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) led 4 party alliance was in the government. High government officials and intelligences were assumed to be related to the incident. The judgment of this smuggling has not been done even after 5 years.
The investigation officer in the case submitted supplementary charge sheet before the court of chief metropolitan magistrate Paresh Chandra Sharma implicating eleven more people, including former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami and former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar,on June 26, 2011.
Earlier, charge sheet was submitted in the case implicating implicating 43 people, court sources said adding that the number of implicated persons had stood at 50 after the submission of the supplementary charge sheet in the case filed under arms act.
The police seized a total of 4,930 different types of sophisticated firearms, 27,020 grenades, 840 rocket launchers, 300 rockets, 2,000 grenade launching tubes, 6,392 magazines and 11,40,520 bullets while they were being loaded on 10 trucks from two engine boats at the jetty of CUFL.
Ahadur Rahman, the then officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli police station, filed case in connection with the incident on April 3 in 2004 and was appointed IO into the cases. The cases were transferred to the CID after 22 days of filing while ASP AKM Kabir Uddin was appointed IO, who submitted the first charge sheet on June 11, 2004
Former industries minister Motiur Rahman Nizami, former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar, former directors general of National Security Intelligence, retired major general Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury and retired brigadier general Abdur Rahim, former additional secretary to the industries ministry Nurul Amin, former NSI directors, retired wing commander Shahabuddin Ahmed and retired major Liakat Hossain, and field officer Akbar Hossain, former managing director of Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Limited Mohshin Talukder, its former general manager AKM Enamul Haque and ULFA leader Paresh Baruah were implicated with the incident in the charge sheets. Of them, Nurul Amin and Paresh Barua are absconding while rest others have remained behind the bars.
The two accused—Md Hafizur Rahman and Din Mohammad, accused to be related to the smugling, stated to the Metropolitan Magistrate Md Osman Gani on Monday, 2 March 2009 that the massive amount of arms and ammunition was being smuggled under the direct supervision of Ulfa leader Paresh Barua, who was residing in Bangladesh at that time. In addition, member of parliament, government officials, National Security Intelligence (NSI), Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI), specially coast guard were very much aware of the supply.[1]