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Touhidul Alam, Deputy Assistant Director of the BDR, who led a rebel delegation in talks with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, was named as the "main" leader of rebel soldiers.
Efforts to track down Alam have not yet yielded results.
"The massacre took place under his (Alam's) leadership ... the rebels had accepted him as their leader," said Nabo Jyoti Khisha, the chief of Lalbagh police station where a case has been filed.
Police claimed that they have gathered "enough evidence" against Alam and other conspirators of the two-day mutiny. Among the 73 officers who were killed was BDR chief Maj Gen Shakil Ahmed. Mutilated bodies of his wife, Nazneen, and three other civilians were recovered from the mass graves and drains inside the BDR complex.
Seventy-two army officers are still missing.
As police and intelligence investigations got underway in Bangladesh's most high profile case, troops launched a massive manhunt to 1,000 fugitive soldiers blamed for the mutiny.
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Mutiny, Military coup in the so called terrorist states like Pakistan and Bangaladesh is not a surprise one but a common and routine one. After all the Bangladesh state and its politicians are a very ungrateful and even forgot to erect a memorial for the Indian Soldiers, who had fought for them and liberated them from the iron fist of Yahya Khan the erstwhile military dictator of the combined pakistan. Even now the military chief of Bangladesh not accepted to respect the valour shown by our soldiers and even publicly refused. Even they dare to unleash terrorism in our country by safe keeping HuJi in their terroritory. What can we expect from these ungreatful people. There is one saying that one who takes weapon will be eliminated by the weapon itself
The focus should be to remove the root causes of discontent and not revenge. The tragic incident showed that army rule is not necessarily good for the army. It breeds immense discontent.
Mr Gupta is not aware of the facts.Whereas the Bangladesh army is being purged of the fundamentalist elements the BDR is already infested with fundamentalist elements and have not been purged as yet. It is not going to be an easy task weeding out the cancer that has set in the ranks.The 20,000 Jammat elements who had been recruited during the BNP regime had to foment trouble when the Govt was taking a pragmatic approach towards India.The fact that ISI is already in the process of having a tighte grip over the BDR should not be ignored.The issue of poor salaries and command and control of the BDR being in the hands of the army is a mere hogwash. Talibanisation of Bangladesh is distinct possibility. Control over the BDR who man the porous Bangladesh border with India is the first step.Worse will follow if fundamentalist elements succeed in that country.