Law-&-Order
Attack on Ctg police outpost: 2 arrested
Detective Branch (DB) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested two people, including a drug peddler, after some of his associates attacked a police outpost and snatched him away from law enforcers in Chattogram.
The arrestees are Md Hanif, the drug dealer and his brother Yasin, a transgender.
“The duo was arrested from a Dhaka-bound bus in the district’s Bhatiari area around 11:30pm on Tuesday,” said Mainur Rahman Chowdhury, Officer In-charge (OC) of Chandgaon Police Station.
Mohammad Ali Hossain, Deputy Commissioner (DB, North) of CMP, said that details will be known after interrogating Hanif.
The attackers had also taken away a wireless set from Sub-Inspector (SI) Sharif Rokonuzzaman, in-charge of Kalurghat Police Outpost, which was later found abandoned from Moulvibazar Rail Line area of the city.
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On Saturday evening, Rokonuzzaman detained Hanif and another drug peddler Sharif from the former’s house in Kalurghat with the contraband drug and took them to Kalurghat Police Outpost.
A while later, Hanif’s associates and some transgender people attacked the outpost and snatched him from police custody.
A clash between the police and the attackers left Hanif’s sister Nazma dead and two policemen injured, said police.
Later, police filed two cases against 14 named and 210 unnamed people for attacking and ransacking the police outpost and possessing drugs. So far, police have detained eight people in connection with the incident.
Chamber Judge revokes bail order of suspended ACC director Enamul Basir
The Appellate Division on Tuesday revoked the bail order of suspended ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir by the High Court in a bribery case.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division M Enayetur Rahim passed the order following an appeal by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) against the bail order.
The court also fixed December 5 for the hearing of ACC’s appeal in front of a full bench of the Appellate Division.
Advocate Khurshid Alam represented the ACC in the court.
On November 17, HC granted Basir bail for six months after hearing his bail petition.
Earlier in February, Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 Sheikh Nazmul Alam sentenced two disgraced government officials to different jail terms in the high-profile bribery case.
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While Enamul Basir was sentenced to eight years in jail as the recipient of Tk 40 lakh as bribe , ex- Deputy Inspector General of police Mizanur Rahman was given three years as the one paying the bribe in the same case.
A fine of Tk 80 lakh was also imposed on Basir in the case.
The appeal against that judgment was accepted by the High Court for hearing in April.
On July 22, 2019, ACC arrested Enamul from his Darus Salam residence in the city for taking the bribe from ex-DIG Mizanur Rahman.
On July 16, 2019, ACC director Sheikh Mohammad Fanafillah lodged the complaint over the bribery scandal.
A private TV channel reported that Mizan gave Tk 40 lakh to Basir to get a clean chit in a corruption case.
Enamul was suspended on June 10 of that year for allegedly leaking information, a breach of his job discipline.
Mizan was arrested in the case on July 21, 2019.
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DIG Mizan was an additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). He was withdrawn on January 9, 2019 following allegations of threatening a female news presenter of a private television channel.
Man sentenced to life for 2012 rape of minor in Rajshahi
A Rajshahi court on Tuesday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment for raping a minor girl in Charghat upazila of the district around 10 years back.
Rajshahi Women and Children Repression and Prevention Tribunal-2 Judge Muhmmad Hasanuzzaman also fined the convict Tk 20,000, in default of which he will have to serve one more month imprisonment in jail, according to Syed Shamsunnahar, public prosecutor of the court.
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The convict is Ujjal Ali, 35, a resident of Purbo Kalabiparea village under Charghat upazila.
According to the case statement, the accused raped the class five-grader after taking her to a sugarcane field when the victim was returning home after providing her father food at a cropland on September 27, 2012.
The accused threatened to kill the victim if she disclosed the matter to anybody.
However, a woman whose identity has not been disclosed witnessed the crime and informed the victim’s parents.
The 5th-grader’s father filed a case under Women and Children Repression and Prevention Act against the accused on the following day.
Police pressed chargesheet accusing him while the court framed the chargesheet against him.
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After completing all procedures, the court handed down the judgment in the presence of the accused on Tuesday, the PP added.
Outrage in Feni as journo produced in court tied by rope around his waist
Journalists and civil society in Feni are up in arms with outrage over an incident where a journalist was trapped in a false case and then brought to court at the end of a rope that was tied around his waist.
The victim is SM Yusuf Ali, bureau chief of Dainik Adhikar, editor of online news portal ‘Feni Report’ and a resident of Purbochandrapur union in Dagonbhuiyan upazila of the district.
M Shahjahan Saju, who stood for the victim in court, said former Superintendent of Police (SP) of the district Jahangir Alam Sarkar filed some false cases against the four journalists including his client to harass them deliberately in 2019.
Though the newsmen secured bail from the High Court in the cases later, the chargesheets were submitted by indicting them.
Journalist Yusuf Ali had somehow missed an appearance before a Feni court in hearing in one of the four cases filed with Chhagalnaiya police station.
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Police picked him up from his residence around 1.30am on Wednesday and produced him before the court by tying rope around his waist on Wednesday, resulting in a severe outrage among the journalists over the matter.
He was landed in jail from the court after hearing the case.
Abu Taher, a senior journalist and heroic Freedom Fighter, said that it was a condemnable matter that a journalist was taken to the court by tiring with rope which is a clear abhorrent to the Journalism.
Advocate Laxman Banik, president of Shushanoer Jonno Nagorik, a civil society organisation, said former SP Jahangir indicted the journalists in the false cases.
“It is not lawful to produce a journalist before a court tied to a rope,” he said.
Mohammad Shahadat Hossain, Didarul Alam, president and general secretary of Feni Reporters’ Unity respectively, demanded action against the former SP upon investigation in this regard.
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SP Jakir Hasan said the rope was untied and removed after the identity of the arrestee was established, putting the earlier action in a ‘cuffing’.
HC revokes bail of militant arrested from Mymensingh
The High Court on Tuesday revoked the bail order of a member of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam who was arrested from Mymensingh.
The accused Shoaib Ahmed was arrested from Mymensingh last year.
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The HC bench of Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman passed the order following a note to appeal against the bail order.
On Sunday, the court granted militant Shoaib bail in a case filed under the anti-terrorism act. Later, a notice was served to appeal against this bail.
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On August 28 last year, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Shoaib and Hujaifa Ahmed conducting a drive at Shoaib’s house in Mymensingh in connection with the case filed at Kotwali police station.
During interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they used to recruit members and raised funds to form an organisation inspired by the ideology of Ansar al-Islam, which they would name ‘Mujahid Al Hind Bangladesh.’
5 get life imprisonment for killing child in Sirajganj
A court here on Tuesday sentenced five people to life imprisonment in a case filed for killing a child in 2021.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Mohammad Erfan Ullah handed down the punishment, said Advocate Waz Karni Lockett, additional public prosecutor of the court.
The lifers are Sohel 28, Kaushar,30, Heeran ,32, Al-Amin ,40, and Osman 38 of Chak Makimpur village of Belkuchi upazila.
Read: Father, son get life imprisonment for murder in Mymensingh
The court also fined them Tk 20,000 each, in default, to suffer another year of imprisonment.
Under Section 201 of the Penal Code, the court also sentenced them to 2 years of imprisonment each with fine of Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer 6 months more in prison.
According to the prosecution, Emon, 6, son of Malaysian expatriate Md Chan Miah of Char Mokimpur village of Belkuchi upazila, went missing on February 15, 2021.
On February 22, police recovered the body of the child from a bamboo cluster in Maijhail village of the same upazila.
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Later, a case was filed accusing seven people at Belkuchi police station following a complaint lodged by Sanwar Hossain, the uncle of the child.
After the investigation, police submitted a charge sheet against the seven accused. The court also acquitted two others due to lack of evidence.
Father, son get life imprisonment for murder in Mymensingh
A court here on Tuesday sentenced a man and his son to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2013.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Rashed Talukder also fined Dulal Miah,58, and his son Tanvir Ahmed Forhad Tk 30,000 each, in default, to suffer three months imprisonment. Of the convicts, Tanvir Ahmed was tried in absentia.
According to the prosecution, the convicts had enmity with Fayzur Rahman of Mymensing's Muktagacha over a piece of land.
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As a sequel to their long rivalry, Dulal Miah and his son attacked Fayzur Rahman's son Abu Raihan on January 24, 2013, leaving him critically injured.
Raihan was taken to Upazila Health Complex and then to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. He died when he was taken to Dhaka.
Later, a case was filed against six people at Muktagacha police station following a complaint lodged by Fayzur Rahman.
Another probe body formed over 2 militants’ escape from court premises
The Security Services Division of the Home Ministry has formed a four-member committee to probe the escaping of two death row convicts, also members of banned militant group Ansar al-Islam, from the premises of a Dhaka court on Sunday.
The ministry issued a notification in this regard on Sunday (November 20).
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The committee, headed by additional secretary (Prison sub-division) of the Security Services Division, has been asked to submit its report within seven working days, said the notification.
On Sunday, two members of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the premises of Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court (Dhaka CMM Court).
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The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran.
Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in Dhaka on October 31, 2015.
HC directs to send back civil appeal cases at CHT courts to Divisional Commissioner
The High Court on Monday directed that under trial appeals against civil case orders cannot be transferred to three Chittagong Hill Tracts district courts for hearing from Chattogram Divisional Commissioner’s and Additional Divisional Commissioner’s office.
A special bench of Justice Sheikh Hassan Arif and Justice SM Kuddus Zaman passed the order during a reference on two legal questions in this regard.
The bench also directed to immediately send back the undisposed civil nature case appeals and other such legal procedures transferred to these courts from the divisional commissioner’s office.
The Chattogram Divisional Commissioner will dispose of these appeals as they did before 2003, amendment of law for appeals against deputy commissioner’s orders in civil cases, said the court.
The court however said already disposed cases at CHT courts sent from the divisional office will be considered passed and closed.
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Any other courts cannot raise questions regarding the orders given by CHT district judge courts in these cases though it’s not fall under their jurisdiction, said the High Court .
Until establishment of district judge courts at Rangamati, Bandarban and Khagrachhari on July 1, 2008, deputy commissioners of these districts used to dispose of all cases. Besides, appeals against those orders were made to the Chattogram divisional commissioners.
According to the provisions of Chittagong Hill Tracts Act (Amended), 2003, all criminal case appeals and other criminal cases from divisional commissioner and additional divisional commissioner’s office will be transferred to district session judge courts.
But the undisposed civil case appeals, revisions and such other legal procedures were not to be transferred according to the provisions.
However the district judges have been disposing of all civil case appeals and revisions transferred from the Divisional and Additional Divisional Commissioner’s offices until now.
Few months ago, Bandarban’s additional district judge sent a reference to the Supreme Court Registrar General seeking to resolve two legal questions in this regard.
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The two questions of reference are- whether the pending appeal or revision or any other legal proceedings filed with the Divisional Commissioner of Chittagong Division or Additional Divisional Commissioner against the judgment or order of civil nature case given by district deputy commissioner prior establishment of district judge courts can be legally transferred to that court?
Besides, if the divisional commissioner or additional divisional commissioner transferred such civil nature legal proceeding to the district judge court for trial and settlement whether it is legally defensible?
After the reference was sent to Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique he formed a special bench for hearing.
On October 31, the bench asked Attorney General AM Amin Uddin, senior lawyers AF Hasan Arif , Rokon Uddin Mahmud, Prabir Neogi and Raja Devasish Roy to give expert opinion in this regard as amici curiae (friends of court).
According to the order, from now on, civil cases in the three hill districts will be filed in the Joint District and Sessions Judge Courts and appeals against them will be filed in the District Sessions Judge Court.
But the divisional commissioners will have to dispose off the appeal against civil cases settled by district deputy commissioners before the establishment of the district judge courts in those districts.
Mastermind behind militant escape from custody identified: CTTC Chief
The man who led the group in snatching two death row convicts and members of banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam from Dhaka court premises using pepper spray on police members on Sunday has been identified.
Md Asaduzzaman, Chief of Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) of Dhaka Metropolitan police told this to reports at a press briefing on Monday at capital's DMP media center.
“We got the name of the man and some of his associates. But will not disclose it for the sake of investigation,” he said.
“We have received intelligence information on how the escape of those two militants was planned. Arresting them is our main target at the moment,” said the CTTC chief.
Read more: 2 militants who escaped from Dhaka court will be arrested any time soon: DB Chief
Replying to a question he said, “They planned to snatch all four militants who got down from the police van first but were able to take only two. If all 12 militants had got down from the van at once they would have tried to take them all. Further information on their plan can be known after arresting the miscreants involved in the operation.”
CTTC chief Asaduzzaman said both the convicts were top level militants of Ansar-al-Islam who were arrested by CTTC in 2016. “Arresting them again is equally important to us as before,” he added.
Replying to another question he said “We are maintaining the highest alert to arrest them but I don’t believe there is any such word as ‘Red Alert’ in police jargon. All the points have been alerted to ensure the militants cannot leave the country.”
He said no new militant outfit was involved in Sunday's incident .
On Sunday, two members of the banned militant outfit Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the premises of Dhaka Chief Judicial Magistrate Court (Dhaka CMM Court).
Read more: Five cops suspended over escape of 2 convicted militants
The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran.
Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in Dhaka on October 31, 2015.