Law-&-Order
ACC case against Nazmul Huda to continue as HC rejects plea
The High Court on Tuesday rejected a petition filed by Barrister Nazmul Huda seeking cancelation of the trial proceedings of a case filed against him by the Anti-Corruption Commission for bringing false allegations against former chief justice Surendra Kumar Sinha.
It also asked the lower court concerned to dispose of the case within six months.
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Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo passed the order after hearing the petition.
As per the court order, there is no bar to continue the case against Nazmul Huda, a former communications minister, in the lower court, said deputy attorney general AKM Amin Uddin.
Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan represented the ACC.
On Monday, Nazmul filed a petition seeking cancelation of the trial proceedings of the case.
Huda lodged a complaint against SK Sinha at Shahbagh Police on September 27, 2018, alleging that the verdict in a case settled against him during the tenure of the former caretaker government was changed and bribery demanded.
He claimed that Sinha demanded a bribe of Tk 3.25 crore to dismiss the case. However, after investigation for a year and a half the ACC did not find any evidence in Huda's allegation.
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On February 20, 2020, ACC director Syed Iqbal Hossain lodged a counter complaint against Huda for making false allegations against SK Sinha.
In 2021, ACC director ,also the investigating officer of the case, submitted a chargesheet against him.
On November 9, 2021, a Dhaka special court sentenced Sinha to 11 years in jail for laundering Tk. 4 crore borrowed from Farmers Bank, now Padma Bank. He now lives abroad.
BCL leader held for assaulting policeman in Rajshahi
Police arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in a case over assaulting a police member in Puthia upazia of Rajshahi on Monday.The arrestee was Naeem Hasan, general secretary of ward -2 Baneshwar union BCL and ex-vice president of Baneshwar Government College's BCL unit.The injured policeman, Atiqur Rahman, works in Rajshahi district police.
Read: Haji Salim's bail application rejectedSuhrawardy Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Puthia police station, said an easy-bike hit a human hauler carrying Naeem's father Monday afternoon while he was taking mangoes to Baneshwar College ground, leaving him injured.Naeem came to the spot and saw a team of district police patrolling there. Suddenly, Naeem got furious and started beating policeman Atiqur mercilessly.He was later rescued and admitted to Rajshahi District Police Lines Hospital.
Read: 6 sentenced to death for double murder in N’ganjLater, a sub-inspector (SI) filed a case against Naeem and his father over the attack on an on-duty police officer.Legal action will be taken against him, said the OC.
Haji Salim's bail application rejected
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected the bail petition of Awami League lawmaker Haji Salim in a graft case.
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division Justice M Enayetur Rahim refused to pass an order and fixed August 1 for hearing the petition in the full-bench of the Appellate division.
Advocate Syed Ahmed Raza stood for Salim.
On May 24, Salim moved the Supreme Court, seeking quashing of his 10-year prison sentence handed down by a lower court in the graft case.
Haji Salim's counsel Syed Ahmed Raza, submitted the plea to the Appellate Division of the apex court.
A bail petition was also submitted in the same case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), he said.
On May 22, Salim was sent to jail in this case by a Dhaka court following his surrender.
After spending a night in jail, he was admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on the following day.
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Haji Salim, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail in the graft case, went to Bangkok for treatment on May 2 and returned home on May 5, sparking a huge controversy.
On February 10, the full text of the High Court’s order was published upholding his 10-year imprisonment.
The HC had earlier asked him to surrender before the trial court within 30 days of getting the order and also directed the trial court to cancel the bail order of the MP and issue an arrest warrant against him "if he does not surrender within the given time".
ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam said, “After this order, Haji Salim has lost the eligibility to remain an MP according to the Article 66 (2) of the Constitution.”
On March 9 last year, the HC bench of justices Md Moinul Islam Chowdhury and AKM Zahirul Huq upheld the lower court order sentencing him to 10 years in jail after hearing a petition by the ACC.
At the same time, the Dhaka-7 MP was acquitted of a three-year jail term in the same case filed by the ACC for concealing wealth information.
The High Court also reduced the fine imposed on Salim by half to Tk 10 lakh. He will have to spend one more year in jail if he fails to pay the fine.
In 2007, the ACC filed the case against Salim. On April 27, 2008, a Dhaka court jailed him for 13 years and fined Tk 20 lakh.
Salim moved the High Court against the order. In 2011, the court overturned his sentence but the ACC later appealed against the lower court order.
Later, the Appellate Division had asked the High Court to re-hear the petition.
Irregularities of Salim resurfaced after his son Irfan Salim was arrested for assaulting a Navy official in 2020.
HC grants anticipatory bail to Square group MD Anjan in hoarding rice case
The High Court on Monday granted six-weeks anticipatory bail to Square Group Managing Director Anjan Chowdhury in a case filed over illegal stockpiling of rice.
HC bench of Justice Jahangir Hossain and Justice Shahed Nuruddin passed the order after he appealed for bail appearing before the court.
Senior advocate Shafik Ahmed and barrister Mahbub Shafique presented the petitioner's side while Deputy Attorney General Sarwar Hossain Bappi appeared for the state.
On June 1, administration seized 5,124 tonnes of atap rice from the warehouse of Square Food and Beverage in Dinajpur sadar upazila.
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As the mill had only approval of stocking 312 tonnes of rice, in-charge of the mill Zayed Hossain was shown arrested in a case filed during a mobile court conducted by Mortuza Al Moyeed, executive magistrate and Dinajpur sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO).
Biplab Kumar Sinha, upazila food controller filed the case complaint against Anjan Chowdhury and Zayed Hassan in this regard.
The market price of the seized rice was around Tk 41 crore, which was too huge amount to be trialed by the mobile court so the complaint was handed over to kotwali police station for lodging as a regular case, said Mozaffar Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali police station.
6 sentenced to death for double murder in N’ganj
A Narayanganj tribunal on Monday sentenced six people to death for killing a couple in 2009.
The condemned convicts are -Ariful Islam, 30, Jamal Hossain, 20, Sumon, 31, Md Sumon, Lokman and Shafique.
Of them, Md Sumon, Lokman and Shafique were tried in absentia.
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According to the prosecution, Khadiza Begum, wife of Abdur Rahman of Ganganagar village in Rupganj upazila ,was found dead in a water body on August 11, 2009.
During investigation police came to know that Rahman had hired the six men at Tk 10,000 to kill his wife over family feud.
They took Khadiza to an abandoned place and violated her in turns. Later, they killed her and dumped the body in a water body.
The convicts killed Abdur Rahman too as he refused to give them the money and dumped the body there.
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Rupganj thana police registered a murder case after getting a complaint from Khadiza’s father.
After examining the records and 12 witnesses, Narayanganj Woman and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Nazmul Haque handed down the punishment.
Son gets life term for killing father in Khulna
A court here on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing his father in 2017 at Pithabhog village in Rupsha upazila.
The convict is Proshanto Biswas, son of Prafulla Biswas, of the area.
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Khulna Additional District and Sessions Judge-2 Tasnim Jahura also fined the convict Tk 10000, in default, he will serve two months more in jail.
According to the case statement, on January 17, 2017, Proshanto slaughtered his father Prafulla over a family feud.
Later, Sushant Biswas, the youngest son of the deceased, lodged a complaint against his elder brother Proshanto.
Based on his complaint, a case was filed at Rupsha Police Station against the accused.
Proshanto fled to India after the killing.
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Later, he surrendered to police upon his return and gave a confessional statement under section 164.
On October 12, 2017, the investigating officer in the case PBI Inspector AKM Mahfuzul Haque submitted a charge sheet against Prashant.
HC orders to set up information centre at SC within 60 days
The High Court (HC) has ordered to set up an information centre following the obligations of the Right to Information Act-2009(RTI) at the Supreme Court(SC) within 60 days.
A two-member HC bench comprising Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Mia and Justice Khijir Hayat pronounced the verdict after hearing a writ petition.
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The writ petition was filed by Advocate Shishir Monir on May 26. Shishir conducted the hearing himself while Deputy Attorney General Bipul Bagmar stood for the state.
Replying to questions after the pronouncement of the verdict, Shishir said that instructions have been given to the Registrar General of the SC along with Registrars of both the Appellate and the HC divisions to set up the information centre.
According to the writ petition, the Right to Information Act-2009 directs to establish information cells and recruit Information Officers(IO) in all the constitutional institutions of the country, including the government and the autonomous bodies.
The writ petition also says that free flow of information is peoples’ constitutional right according to section 39 of the constitution. People are deprived of this right due to the absence of information cells and information officers at public offices.
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“The plaintiff had requested the Registrar of the HC for providing information regarding capital punishment. The plaintiff didn’t get any response from him. Later, he submitted a request to the Registrar General of the SC to implement the RTI-2009 Act. The plaintiff finally had to file a writ petition after not receiving any response from the SC official either,” adds the writ petition.
Truck driver held after engineer’s death in Bagerhat road crash
Police arrested the driver of a truck that killed an engineer in Bagerhat on May 22 while driving the vehicle after taking drugs.
The arrestee was identified as Mizanur Rahman, 30, son of Eskandar Sheikh from Rampal upazila, an assistant of the truck driver, said police.
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Tipped off, he was arrested from Gaola union in Mollahat upazila Friday evening, said KM Ariful Haque, Superintendent of Bagerhat police at a press briefing on Saturday.
On May 22, the truck hit the motorcycle of Moshiur Rahman, 45, an engineer of Local Government Initiative on Climate Change, breaking the barricade of Munshiganj bridge toll plaza.
He was declared dead when taken to Bagerhat district hospital.
Ariful Haque said Mizanur was driving the truck instead of the driver and another assistant was seating beside him when the accident occurred.
He was driving the truck in high speed fearing that someone had spotted him while taking drugs , said the SP.
The truck has been seized and the accused will be produced before court after completing legal procedures, he said.
Case filed over killing Bogura Polytechnic student
A case has been filed over the murder of a Bogura Polytechnic Institute student in Bogura town.
Victim’s father Anishur Rahman Babu filed the case with Bogura sadar police accusing six people including Arif and Sohan, said Sajjadul Islam, sub-inspector (SI) of Banani police outpost of Shajahanpur.
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Al Jamiul Boni, 22, a fifth-semester student of Computer Science at Bogura Polytechnic Institute, was stabbed to death allegedly by some miscreants in Colony area Friday evening.
Police said a month-long weaving and textile fair was underway at Bogura Mohammad Ali Hospital playground. As a part of this fair, some youths were selling lottery tickets in front of Taj Pharmacy in the Colony Battala area Friday evening.
Boni bought a lottery ticket from them. When Boni went to put down the lottery into the lottery box, he had an altercation with another youth named Sohan.
At one stage, some others along with Sohan hacked Boni mercilessly, leaving him seriously injured.
Later, he was taken to Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital where he died after a while.
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The body was handed over to his family after an autopsy at around 1:15 pm on Saturday, the SI added.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Bogura sadar police station Selim Reza said the real cause of the crime is yet to be known. However, efforts are on to arrest the accused, he added.
Three held over gang rape of schoolgirl in Chattogram
Police have arrested three youths for raping a ninth-grader in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram.
The arrestees were identified as Emran Hossain Sagar, 19, son of Md Badshah Mia, Saniullah Ali Rimon, 20, son of Mohammad Rustom Ali Basek and Md. Kamal Uddin, 26, son of Mohammad Kofil Uddin.
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They were arrested after girl’s mother filed a case with Boalkhali police station Saturday morning.
According to the case statement, she left her home following a dispute with her mother around 10:00pm on Friday night and met Alamgir, one of her friends, on the way.
When they were crossing the area some youths appeared there and picked them up in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw and took them to a place adjacent to the Boalkhali Fire Service Station.
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They consumed drugs and raped the girl in the autorickshaw by turns after holding her friend hostage around 2:00am, it said.
Officer-In-Charge(OC) of Boalkhali police station Md Abdul Karim said that they were sending the girl to Chattogram Medical College Hospital(CMCH) for medical examinations.