Law-&-Order
Security agencies will act, if vandalism is there in the name of protests, says Home Minister
Law enforcing agencies will perform their duties if anyone causes public sufferings in the name of protests by blocking roads and vandalism, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday.
The Home Minister referred to a recent statement by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that any party can hold their activities peacefully and there is no objection from the government.
But, the minister said, action will be taken if there is any vandalism or public sufferings.
“The Prime Minister believes that if the political activities are conducted normally, parties will hold meetings and talk about their demands. Our government does not intend to obstruct and are not obstructing such activities,” the minister said.
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The minister made the remarks as he talked to journalists in a dialogue organised by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum (BSRF) at the secretariat on Thursday.
He said that in case of any violent act, cases will be filed as a normal procedure.
“Yesterday, a former justice's car was vandalised and he filed a case following the normal procedure. There is no need to find the smell of politics here,” said the minister.
When asked if old political cases are being reopened against the opposition leaders, he said, ”There is a backlog of cases that need to be disposed of. We cannot keep old cases pending for decades, so nothing is being done here.”
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He said Awami League has always believed a party has to come to power through the people's mandate, and if any kind of untoward incident occurs or there are attempts to do so, the security forces will act.
Attack on ex-justice Manik: 11 JCD activists put on 2-day remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed 11 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal(JCD) on a two-day remand each in a case over the attack on former Supreme Court Judge JAHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.
Those remanded are- JCD Central Committee Joint General Secretary Maksudur Rahman Sumit, former Joint General Secretary of Jagannath University unit JCD Md Sakhawat Hossain Khan, Kalabagan JCD member Md Robin Khan, Md Sagar, Md Jasim Uddin Bhuiyan, Md Harun Or Rashid, Matiur Rahman, Shamim Rahman, Jamal Hossain, Ariful Islam and Abu Taher.
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Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Debdash Chandra Adhikary passed the order as the investigating officer and sub-inspector of Paltan Model Police Station Md Manjurul Hasan Khan produced them before the court with a five-day remand prayer.
On Wednesday, a case was filed against 50 unidentified BNP men in connection with the attack.
The former judge’s gunman Md Rafiqul Islam filed the case against the BNP men at Paltan police station, said Salahuddin Miah, officer-in-charge of the police station.
The case was filed for carrying out attack on the former judge, his driver, gunman and vandalising his car, the OC said.
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According to the caste statement, the attack was made from a procession of the BNP in Nayapaltan area on Wednesday afternoon.
The retired Supreme Court judge came under attack on this way to attend a TV talk show.
The incident occurred around 4:15 pm when he was crossing Nayapaltan area near Rajarbagh Central police Hospital, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Motijheel) of DMP Enamul Haque Mithu.
Increase supervision in case investigation: Police HQ to field level officers
Police headquarters has given instruction to field level police officers to bring criminals under the law, through increased supervision in case investigation.
The instruction was given from the monthly crime review meeting held at the police headquarters on Thursday.
Additional IGP (Crime and Operations) Md. Atiqul Islam, who presided over the meeting, gave the instruction.
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All metropolitan police commissioners, tange DIGs and district superintendents of police (SPs) participated virtually in the meeting. DIG (Crime Management) YM Belalur Rahman, DIG (Operations) Md Haider Ali Khan and related officers were present at the police headquarters.
AIG (Crime Analysis) Sunanda Roy presented statistics regarding the overall crime situation of the country in the month of September 2022 such as robbery, murder, rape, gender violence, recovery of drugs and weapons, unnatural deaths etc.
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A review of the statistics of various cases presented in the meeting shows that in the month of September, there has been a decrease in the total number of registered cases, rape cases, women and children abuse cases compared to the previous month of August 2022.
HC orders speedy disposal of graft case against Gayeshwar
The High Court (HC) on Thursday ordered the trial court to dispose of the case against BNP Standing Committee member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat passed the order rejecting a petition filed by Gayeshwar Chandra in 2010 seeking cancelation of the case.
The court cleared the way for resuming trial in the case lifting the stay order on the trial proceedings.
Lawyer Nitai Roy Chowdhury appeared for the petitioner in court while Advocate M Khurshid Alam Khan for the ACC and Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin Manik for the state.
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On January 5 in 2009, the ACC lodged a complaint with Ramna police station against Gayeshwar for amassing illegal wealth of Tk 2.86 crore and concealing the information.
ACC submitted a chargesheet to the court on July 5 of the same year.
Later in 2010, the High Court stayed the trail proceedings in the case in 2010 as Gayeshwar filed a petition to quash the case. At the same time, the court issued a rule in this regard.
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Himadri murder in Ctg: HC upholds death sentences of 3, acquits 2
The High Court (HC) on Thursday upheld the death sentence of three convicts in a case over the killing student Himadri Majumdar Himu in Chattogram in 2012.
The death-row convicts are- Mahbub Ali Dany, Zahidul Islam Shaon and Zunayed Riyad.
The court also acquitted Shah Selim alias Tipu and Shahadat Hossain Saju.
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The HC bench of Justice Bhishmadev Chakrabortty and Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman delivered the judgment after hearing of the on the death references and the convicts’ petitions.
On 27 April in 2012, Himadri, an A-level student of Summerfield School and College of Chattogram, was forcibly taken to the rooftop of Tipu’s residential building and pushed off from the roof unleashing dogs on him.
Himadri died on May 23 of the year after undergoing treatment for 26 days.
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Later, a case was filed at the Panchlaish police station. On October 30 of the same year, police submitted a chargesheet to the court against the five convicts.
On August 14 in 2016, Chattogram fourth additional metropolitan sessions judge Nurul Islam sentenced the five accused to death for their involvement in the murder.
Later, the documents of the death sentences were sent to the High Court for approval as per rules. Besides, the convicts appealed challenging the trial court judgment.
Attack on ex-judge Manik: 50 BNP men sued
A case has been filed against 50 unidentified BNP men in connection with the attack on former Supreme Court Judge AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik.
The judge’s gunman Md Rafiqul Islam filed the case against the BNP men at Paltan police station around 11.15pm on Wednesday, said Salahuddin Miah, officer-in-charge of the police station.
The case was filed for carrying out attack on the former judge, his driver, gunman and vandalising his car, the OC said.
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The accused will be arrested after scrutinising the CCTV footages, he said.
According to the caste statement, the attack was made from a procession of the BNP in Nayapaltan area on Wednesday afternoon.
The retired Supreme Court judge came under attack on this way to attend a TV talk show.
The incident occurred around 4:15 pm when he was crossing Nayapaltan area near Rajarbagh Central police Hospital, said Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Motijheel) of DMP Enamul Haque Mithu.
Read more: Trawlers carrying BNP activists to Khulna attacked by AL
Sampriti Bangladesh, a citizens’ platform, in a joint statement on Wednesday, condemned the attack on the former justice and demanded an exemplary punishment of the attackers.
BGB seized Tk98 crore goods in October
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has said it seized goods, including arms and drugs, worth Tk98.05 crore in October.
The seized items include 573,393 yaba pills, 2.120kg crystal meth, 13,670 bottles of Phensedyl, 20,227 bottles of foreign liquor, 120 litres of local liquor, 3,815 cans of beer, 2,214kg hemp, 527g heroin, 44,237 stimulant injections, 7,229 Eskuf syrups, and 1,605 bottles of MkDil/Cofidil, Shariful Islam, public relations officer of the BGB headquarters, said Wednesday.
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Also, 27.829kg gold, 24.489kg silver, 1,45,977 cosmetics, 5,702 imitation jewellery, 12,364 sarees, 5,323 three-piece sets, blankets and shirt pieces; 2,870 pieces of readymade garments, 3,564 cubic feet of timber, 4,709kg tea leaves, 35,250kg coal, one touchstone idol, 81 motorcycles, 7 trucks/covered vans, 10 pickup vans, 19 CNG and battery-run auto-rickshaws, and a car were also seized.
The seized arms include four pistols, three guns, 29 rounds of bullets, and four magazines.
Also, legal action was taken against 229 smugglers, 119 Bangladesh nationals and 11 Indian nationals for illegally crossing the border, Shariful said.
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Vorer Pata editor Ertaza on one-day remand in forgery case
A court in Dhaka on Wednesday granted a one-day remand to question daily Vorer Pata Editor and Publisher Kazi Ertaza Hassan in a case filed over forgery and fraudulence.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mosharraf Hossain granted the remand after Police Bureau of Investigation produced him before the court with a remand prayer for two days.
PBI Inspector Mehedi Hasan appealed for the remand while defence lawyer Kazi Najibullah sought bail for his client. After hearing, the court granted a one-day remand.
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During the court proceedings, the PBI said that the Ertaza has made fake documents by using officials of the Sub-Registrar’s office, and some other accused can be arrested with information taken from him during the remand.
Saiful Islam, brother of Ashiyan Group Chairman Nazrul Islam, filed the case with Khilkhet Police Station on January 1, 2022, naming four people. The other three accused are Abu Yusuf Abdullah, Chairman of the trustee board or Northern University, Riazul Alam and Selim Munshi.
Sources at the PBI said that Ashiyan group and Northern University are at loggerheads over land dispute. The campus of the Northern University used to be at the building where the office of Vorer Pata was located.
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According to the case statement, Yusuf had chosen a 5 bigha plot at Ashiyan Group’s project site in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan area for buying in 2013. On August 3, 2013, an agreement was signed between Northern University and Ashiyan Group on a Tk 300 non-judicial stamp at a cost of Tk 50 crore.
The agreement mentioned that the money was to be paid within August 30 of that year. But, Northern University paid only Tk 30 crore and embezzled Tk 20 crore by making forged documents falsely signed by Ashiyan Group Chairman Nazrul Islam. The fake document also showed the price of the land to be Tk 9.3 crore.
Yusuf and Riazul were earlier arrested by PBI. The information found during their questioning led to the arrest of Ertaza.
BCL leader arrested in Savar for ‘cattle lifting’
A female leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was arrested for her alleged involvement in cattle lifting in Dhamrai of Savar early Wednesday.
She was identified as Babli Akter, student affairs secretary of Dhaka-North BCL. She is a 3rd year student of the Department of Social Work of Savar Government College.
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Police arrested Babli after conducting a drive in Nayabari area during the early hours, said Atiqur Rahman, inspector (Investigation) of Dhamrai police station.
Recently, several cattle lifting incidents have taken place at Sinthi village in Kulla union under Dhamrai and cases were filed at the police station, said Inspector Atiqur.
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After interrogating two accused, police found the involvement of Babli in these crimes. Babli used to keep the cattle in her custody and sold them later, he added.
Meanwhile, Dhaka-North BCL President Saidul Islam said, “If the complaint is proved, organisational action will be taken against her.”
Youth stabbed dead for protesting women’s harassment in city
A youth was stabbed to death by some miscreants for protesting stalking of some female passengers in bus in the capital’s Asad Gate area on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Md Rabbi Hossain, 22, from Shahid Nagar area of Lalbagh.
According to police, Rabbi along with some other people went to visit a park in Dhamrai from Azimpur on two hired buses on Tuesday morning. While returning to the city, Rabbi had an altercation with Faruk and some other men as they were teasing women passengers in the bus.
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“At one point, Faruk called someone by phone and informed him about the incident. When the bus reached Asad Gate, some three to four people got into the bus and stabbed Rabbi indiscriminately, injuring him and another person named Shaon severely,” said Utpal Barua, Officer In-charge (OC) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station.
Utpal added that the injured were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where Rabbi died around 1:00am on Wednesday.
The OC further said that the bus was filled with some shop workers from Gausia Market and some students from the New Market area.