Law-&-Order
6 govt officials sued over not paying money for land acquisition of Bangabandhu Tunnel
A case has been filed against six government officials, including a senior assistant commissioner of the Chattogram district administration, for dilly-dallying to pay money due for land acquisition under the Bangabandhu Tunnel Project.
The case was filed at the court of Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Jewel Dev, said the plaintiff’s lawyer Advocate Anamul Hoque.
Taking the allegations into cognisance, the court asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit a report before it after investigating.
The plaintiff is Md Hemayet Hossain, a resident of the port city’s Halishahar area.
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On the other hand, the accused are the district administration’s Senior Assistant Commissioner (land acquisition department) and Executive Magistrate Ahsan Murad, land surveyor Mohammad Abdul Mumin, surveyors Mohammad Iman Hossain Gazi, Muktar Hossain, Abu Kawsar Sohel and their office attendant Belayet Hossain Bulu.
According to the case statement, the victim’s grandfather Omda Miah had two families. Of them, there were two each sons and daughters in the first family and four sons in the second family.
four sons of the second family obtained some lands from their grandfather as heirs but the first family’s members could not accept the matter.Meanwhile, the government took the land as acquisition for the Bangabandhu Tunnel through the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram.
Centering the matter, victim Hemayet, a member of the first family, filed a case with a civil court in Chattogram earlier. Subsequently both the groups moved the High Court that ordered to take the money equally.
Following the order, a deal was inked between them over sharing the money on March 13, 2016.
Dodging the first family’s members, the members of the second family kept the money of the land acquisition under the custody of the prime accused.
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The victim and others submitted a written complaint seeking money to the executive magistrate Ahsan Murad but they received no response in this regard for a long time.
November 10 this year, the victim along with one Md Fakhrul Islam went to the magistrate’s office and wanted to know about the update of their complaint.At one stage of the altercation, all the accused allegedly harassed the duo physically and abused them verbally.
Pirojpur PP apologises for misbehaving with chief judicial magistrate
Khan Md Alauddin, Public Prosecutor of Pirojpur on Tuesday sought unconditional apology from the High Court for misbehaving with district Chief Judicial Magistrate Abu Zafar Md Noman.
After the hearing, the court warned PP Alauddin and exempted him from contempt of the court.
High Court bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Razik-Al-Jalil passed the order in the public interest.
Advocate Fida M. Kamal and Sayed Ahmed Raza stood for the PP in the court, accompanied by Abdullah Al Mamun while Attorney General AM Amin Uddin and Deputy Attorney General Tushar Kanti Roy represented the state during the hearing.
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Addressing the PP, the court said, "You are the lawyer for the state. You are the leader of the bar. As a lawyer at the bar, such behavior with the court is not desirable. If you do not respect the court, how will the dignity of the court be protected? It is PP’s responsibility to assist judges in keeping the court's environment civil. Such behavior cannot be expected."
On July 25, during hearing on the bail plea of an accused named MD Hafizur Rahman Siddiqui, the CJM asked all the lawyers to step outside the courtroom except the plaintiff’s and defendant’s lawyers, after being unable to control the heated arguments between the two sides.
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On September 19, Pirojpur CJM Abu Zafar Md Noman sent a letter to Supreme Court Registrar General alleging PP Md Alauddin had misbehaved.
On October 17, the High Court summoned PP Alauddin to appear before the court on November 15 and present his statement in this regard.
Couple gets life imprisonment for killing young girl in Narayanganj
A Narayanganj court on Tuesday sentenced a couple to life imprisonment in a case filed for killing a young girl in 2013 - although both of them were tried in absentia.
Narayanganj Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Nazmul Haque Shyamol handed down the sentence.
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Swapan Gazi, 36, son of Abdul Majid alias Mannan and his wife Ankhi Akter, 30, of Fatullah area in Narayanganj district were also fined them Tk 50,000 each - in default, to suffer three month more in rigorous imprisonment.
According to the prosecution, Marjina Akter, 16 used to live with the couple at theit rented house in Fatullah.
On November 10, 2013, Swapan strangulated Marjina to death after failing to rape her. Ankhi helped Swapan in the crime.
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Police recovered the body and arrested two other young girls from the house.
During interrogation, police came to know that the couple used to traffic the girls for sex.
Russel, the owner of the house filed a case with Fatullah Police Station. Police submitted chargesheet against them later.
Sahinuddin murder: Court asks PBI to submit probe report on Dec 20
A Dhaka court Tuesday asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit its report on December 20 on re-investigation in a case over businessman Sahinuddin murder in the capital’s Pallabi area.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Tariqul Islam passed the order as PBI failed to submit the report today.
On May 12, the court directed PBI to re-investigate the case and submit a report after accepting Sahinuddin's mother's no-confidence petition.
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On February 15, Detective Branch (DB) Inspector Syed Iftekhar Hossain, investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet against 15 people including MA Awal, a former MP of Laxmipur-1 constituency, in the case.
The other accused in the charge sheet are- Sumon Bepari, Md Taher, Md Golam Kibria Khan, Md Murad, Titu, Md Roki Talukder, Nur Mohammad Hasan, Md Sharif, Iqbal Hossain, Md Tarikul Islam Emon, Tuhin Miah, Md Harunur Rashid, Md Shafikul Islam Shafik and Ibrahim Sumon.
Among them, Shafik and Ibrahim Sumon are on the run while all 13 accused, including Awal, are behind the bars now.
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On May 16 last year, one Sahinuddin was hacked to death in Pallabi over a land dispute in front of his six-year-old son Mashrafe.
On the following day, Aklima Begum, the mother of Sahinuddin, filed a murder case against 20 people including Awal at the Pallabi police station. The case was later handed over to the DB.
On May 20 of the same year, members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Awal from Bhairab. After that Awal failed to secure bail in the lower court and he applied for it at the High Court which was also rejected.
Truth about drug smugglers firing at DGFI officer at Tombru border will be revealed: Home Minister
The truth about why and how drug smugglers fired shots at a Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) officer at the Tombru border in Bandarban will be identified and shared, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said today (November 15, 2022).
He was responding to journalists’ questions after attending the Fire Service and Civil Defence Week 2022 programme in Dhaka.
He said the law enforcing team was conducting a drive against drug traders – following information from a detective agency – at the no-man’s-land area on Bangladesh-Myanmar border where thousands of Rohingyas live.
Read: DGFI officer shot dead during anti-drugs drive at Tombru border: ISPR
On Monday night, an officer of DGFI was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at Tombru border, ISPR said in a press release earlier today.
ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and Rab personnel yet.
Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the UNB correspondent that a Rab member was brought to the hospital around 10 pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.
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Assistant Sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said they were informed about firing at Konarpara area near the border but don’t have information about who was involved.
Some locals claimed Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a team of Rab-15 members at zero point of the border around 7 pm last night (November 14, 2022) while they were conducting a drive.
Woman gets 10-yr jail term for possessing drugs in Khulna
A Khulna court on Monday sentenced a woman to ten years imprisonment in a narcotics case.
The convict is Fatema Begum, wife of Jahangir Sheikh of Pirojpur's Masimpur area.
Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mahmuda Khatun handed down the judgment.
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The court also fined Fatema Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six months more rigorous imprisonment, said Abul Kalam Azad, bench assistant of the court.
According to the prosecution, a team of police arrested Fatema along with 52 bottles of Phensedyl from Rupsa bus stand area of Khulna on July 23, 2019.
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Parveen Akhter, inspector of the departmental intelligence branch of the Narcotics Control Directorate, filed a case under the Narcotics Control Act at Khulna police station.
On September 8, 2019, Mosaddek Hossain, sub-inspector (SI) of the Intelligence Branch of the Narcotics Control Directorate, submitted a charge sheet against the accused.
DGFI officer shot dead during anti-drugs drive at Tombru border: ISPR
An officer of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) was shot dead and a Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel was wounded while conducting a drive against drug smugglers at the Tombru border in Bandarban on Monday (November 14, 2022) night.
ISPR confirmed the information through a press release early today (November 15, 2022).
Gunshots were exchanged between the drug smugglers and the joint team of Rab and DGFI at the Tombru border with Myanmar, under the Ghumdhum union, which left the DGFI personnel dead and a Rab member injured, the press release said.
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ISPR, however, did not reveal the names of the DGFI and Rab personnel yet.
Meanwhile, Sub-inspector Ripon Chowdhury, appointed at Cox’s Bazar Sadar Hospital, told the UNB correspondent that a Rab member was brought to the hospital around 10 pm with critical injury after being shot at the border during a drive.
Assistant Sub-inspector of Naikhongchhari police station Joydeb said they were informed about firing at Konarpara area near the border but don’t have information about who was involved.
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Some locals claimed Myanmar insurgent group Al Yaqin members shot at a team of Rab-15 members at zero point of Bandarban's Tombru border around 7 pm last night while they were conducting a drive.
HC grants bail to ex-LGRD minister’s APS in money laundering case
The High Court on Monday granted bail to AHM Fuad, Assistant Personal Secretary to former Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives in a case filed over laundering Tk 2,500 Crore, earned through illegal means.
The bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Khizir Hayat passed the order during a hearing on a bail petition submitted by the accused.
However, Deputy Attorney General AKM Amin Uddin, representing the state during the hearing, told UNB an appeal will be made to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court seeking suspension of the bail.
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On June 26, 2020, Criminal Investigation Department Inspector SM Miraz Al Mahmud filed a case against ousted Faridpur Awami League General Secretary Sazzad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz Hasan Rubel at capital’s Kafrul police station over money laundering.
On March 3, 2021, a charge sheet was submitted in this case against 10 people including AHM Fuad, Barkat, Rubel, Khondokar Nazmul Hossain levi, former president of Faridpur AL, Swechchasebak League leader Ashiqur Rahman alias Farhan, Jubo League leader Fahan Bin Wazed Fine.
According to the case complaint, accused Barkat secured the position of top leader of ruling party in the district despite being related to two fugitive death-row convicts for war crimes, Razakars Khokon and Bacchu.
Meanwhile his brother Rabiul grabbed the position of Faridpur Press Club president despite never being a journalist.
Sheltered and recommended by former Faridpur sadar upazila chairman Khondokar Mohtesham Hasan, and Jubo League leader AHM Fuad, the two brothers illegally acquired assets worth Tk 3,000 crore by controlling tender, trading commissions, drug trade, and extortion from the transportation sector.
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Of this asset Tk 2,535 crore has already been laundered to foreign countries through Hundi, the complaint said.
The case is currently under trial against 51 people including 10 named in the charge sheet.
APS of former LGRD minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, Fuad submitted a petition seeking bail to the High Court.
The High Court today granted him bail disposing a rule it issued earlier in this regard.
No concrete evidence yet on Buet student Fardin’s murder: Home Minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Monday said law enforcement agencies are yet get any tangible evidence to untangle the murder of Fardin Noor Parash, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
He was responding to a question from reporters at a programe held to mark the 9th founding anniversary of River Police at Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital in the evening.
"We have not received any information with concrete proof," the home minister said. “We speak only on facts.”
Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.
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On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.
On Thursday, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death with Rampura Police Station.
Police arrested Amatullah Bushra the same day hours after filing the case.
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been investigating the case to unearth the motive of the murder and who did it.
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Actress Pori Moni's petition for cancelling narcotics case dismissed
A Dhaka court on Monday dismissed a petition submitted for cancelling the case filed against film actress Pori Moni under the Narcotics Control Act.
Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam of the Special Judge's Court-10 of Dhaka passed the order after her lawyer Nelanjona Refat (Surovi) submitted an application.
In the petition, the lawyer said the stipulated time for completing the trial in the case has already expired. So, the case should be cancelled as the court failed to dispose of it within the stipulated 135 working days.
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While opposing the defendant's plea, the prosecution said it is not mandatory to dispose of the case within 120 working days. So, the petition should be rejected.
Upon hearing both sides, the court ordered the dismissal of the application for cancellation of the proceedings.
The court also set December 15 for the next hearing of the case.
Pori Moni's lawyers represented her at the court in her absence.
Pori Moni's two other associates -- Ashraful Islam Dipu and Kabir Howlader were also present in the court.
Pori Moni was arrested on August 4, following a raid by RAB on her Banani residence. A case was filed against her under the Narcotics Control Act the following day.
On August 31, 2021, a Dhaka court granted bail to Pori Moni in the narcotics case. She had walked out of jail the following day.
On October 4, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) submitted a charge sheet against them.
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On November 15 last year, Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge KM Emrul Kayesh took into cognizance the charges framed by police against the accused.
On January 5, judge of Dhaka Special Judge of Court-10 Md Nazrul Islam indicted Pori Moni and two others in the case.
On January 30, Pori Moni appealed before the High Court for quashing the case and subsequent indictment by the trial court.