Law-&-Order
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.
Councillor arrested for rape attempt in Gazipur
Police arrested a councillor of Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) on Friday for allegedly trying to rape a woman.
The arrestee was identified as Farooq Ahmed, 50.
A case was filed in this regard on Friday, said Jabed Masud, officer-in-charge (OC) of Tongi East Police Station.
According to the statement, Farooq was in a relationship with a woman. On May 23, she went to Farooq's house to meet him.
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There, Farooq tried to rape her, finding her alone in his house. He fled the spot as neighbours arrived hearing her screams.
On Friday morning, the victim lodged a written complaint. Based on the complaint, Farooq was arrested at noon from his home in the Ershad Nagar area of the city.
The arrestee will be produced before the court on Saturday morning, the OC added.
Man dies at lover's home; one held
A 32-year-old man was found dead at a house at Matuail in Kadamtali of the capital on Friday morning, said police.
The deceased was identified as Ashiqul Haque Chowdhury, of Brahmanbaria. He used to work as a printing manager at ‘The Asian Age’ living in a mess in Tejturipara area, said Mahabubul Haque, sub-inspector (SI) of Kadamtali police station.
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Police said Ashiqul had developed a love affair with a woman named Safia Begum, 28, few months ago. He went to Safia’s rented house in Matuail on Thursday night and fell sick there.
Safia alerted police when he died around 4am, said SI Mahabubul.
Police recovered the body around 9:30 am on Friday and detained Safia for interrogation, he added.
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The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) for an autopsy.
“The exact cause of death can be ascertained after getting the post-mortem report,” said the police official.
Crimes against humanity: Fugitive death row convict held
A fugitive death row convict, who was sentenced by the International Crimes Tribunal for committing crimes against humanity in 1971, was arrested from the city’s Mohammadpur area on Friday, said Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).
The convict was identified as Md Nazrul Islam, 69, of Naogaon.
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ASP Imran Khan of Rab headquarters media wing said they nabbed Nazrul after a drive in the city’s Mohammadpur area around 12:30 pm.
The International Crimes Tribunal sentenced Nazrul along with two others- Rezaul Karim and Shaheed Mandal- to death for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.
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The three convicts were found guilty of murder, looting, arson, torture and kidnapping in 1971. Of them, Nazrul was tried in absentia, said the official.
1 held after Kushtia college girl forced to marry at gunpoint
Police said on Thursday that they arrested a man and were looking for several others in a case filed in connection with forcing a college girl into marriage at gunpoint.
Police named the arrestee as Md Faruk, 43, of Panti village in Kumarkhali upazila in the district.
But the main accused Golam Dastagir Titas,45, whom the girl was forced to marry was still on the run along with about 20 other alleged accomplices, police said.
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According to the case Titas led the gang to burst into the girl’s house in Kumarkhali upazila and tied her mother up with ropes before forcing her to sign the marriage registration book.
The case was filed at the Kumarkhali Police Station on a complaint from the girl’s mother, said Kamruzzaman Talukdar, officer-in-charge of the station.
Golam Dastogir Titas, 45, was named as the main accused in the case filed against 20 people, some of them unnamed.
The girl completed her graduation from a local college this year.
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She complained that Titas has been pestering her with the marriage proposal for the past six years. He also threatened to kill her unless she accepts the proposal.
Efforts are on to nab the others accused, said the OC.
Children’s death from adulterated syrup: HC orders DGDA to pay Tk 15 lakh to 104 victims’ families each
The High Court on Thursday ordered the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) to provide Tk 15 lakh as compensation to 104 children’s families each who died between 1982 to 2009 taking adulterated paracetamol syrup.
The HC bench of Justice Md Ashraful Kamal and Justice Razik Al Jalil passed the order after hearing on a writ petition filed in this regard in 2010.
The court directed DGDA to collect the compensation money from individuals and organisations concerned complying with the order.
Senior advocate Manzil Murshid represented the petitioner’s side along with advocate Ripon Baroi, advocate Eklas Uddin Bhuiyan, advocate Sanjay Mol and Advocate Shahin Ara Laily while advocate Md Asaduzzaman appeared for the accused.
From 1982 to 1992, a total of 76 children died after drinking adulterated paracetamol syrup and in 2009, 28 more died after taking pracetamol syrup produced by Rid Pharmaceuticals.
In 2010, human rights organisation Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB) submitted a writ petition in public interest attaching the reports published in different newspapers.
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The court held the final hearing on a rule issued over this writ petition on Thursday, said Manzil Murshid.
The court also announced DGDA’s inaction to control adulterated medicines illegal and asked it to take action against the crimes of adulterating medicines under the Special Power Act, he said.
Md Shafiqul Islam, then supervisor of DGDA, filed a case against five people including the owner of Rid Pharma over the death of 28 children in 2009 at Dhaka Drug Court. But the court acquitted all of the accused in this case after trial.
The death of 76 children between 1982 to 1992 due to kidney failure sparked huge outcry. Later lab test and probe revealed presence of toxic element Diethylene Glycol in paracetamol syrup produced by Polycam Laboratories and four other companies.
In 1993, DGDA filed a case against five people including owner of Polycam Laboratories Abdur Rab but the trial in the case came to a halt after the accused moved High Court.
After 26 years, the court sentenced Abdur Rab one year imprisonment in the case.
SC rejects Jap woman’s plea to go abroad with her kids
The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a Japanese woman's plea to go abroad with her two children.
A six-member full bench of the Appellate Division, headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique, also dismissed a contempt plea of the Japanese woman, Nakano Erico, to haul her estranged husband, Bangladesh-born US citizen Imran Sharif.
Besides, the court also refused to entertain Imran's contempt plea against Erico for "disobeying an earlier court order".
On May 17, Erico’s counsel Sishir Monir appealed to the Appellate Division seeking permission for his client to travel abroad with her two children.
Erico has spent many days in Bangladesh with her two daughters and wants to go abroad for a vacation that can be to Japan, according to the plea.
At the same time, Erico asked the court to press contempt of court charges against Imran for not following the Supreme Court's order on meeting their two children.
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Later, Imran also filed a contempt of court plea against Erico alleging disobedience of the High Court order to allow him to meet their two children.
On February 13, the Appellate Division ordered disposal of the case within three months over the custody of the two children of Imran and Erico at a family court.
During this period, the court made it clear that the two daughters will stay with their Japanese mother in Bangladesh. And Imran can meet them but can’t leave the country.
As per the order of the Appellate Division, the two children have been in the custody of their mother since December 12 last year. However, their father can visit them every day at a convenient time between 9am and 9pm.
On November 21 last year, the HC bench of justices M Enayetur Rahim and Md Mostafizur Rahman ruled that the Japan-born daughters of Imran and Erico will stay with their father.
However, the mother can exclusively meet the daughters, aged 11 and 10, three times a year for 10 days at a time and Imran, the father, will have to bear her travel and accommodation expenses, the court had said.
On December 5, Erico filed a petition with the Appellate Division challenging the High Court's order.
After 12 years of marriage, on January 18 last year, Erico, a physician, appealed for divorce from engineer Imran over marital dispute.
On January 28, 2021, she also filed a case with a Tokyo family court for the custody of their three children.
But on February 21, Imran returned to Bangladesh with their two girls from Japan. After that a Japanese court passed an order giving the children under their mother’s custody.
On August 19, Erico filed a writ petition in the High Court here seeking custody of the two girls.
BGB seizes smuggled goods worth Tk 132 crore in May
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh(BGB) have seized smuggled goods, ammunition and drugs worth around Tk 132 crore through drives at different places of the country including in border areas in May.
Among the drugs seized by the BGB are-- 12,13,171 Yaba pills, 7,898 Kgs of Crystal Meth(Ice), 1,885 kgs of heroin, 3,150 kgs of hemp, 22,067 bottles of Phensedyl, 12,588 bottles of foreign liquor, 3,960 cans of beer, 2,148 kgs of Marijuana, 2,80,639 packets of cigarettes and Bidi, 835 kgs of tobacco leaves, 51,137 injections, 5,696 bottles of Eascof syrup, 1,031 bottles of Mcadyl syrup, 6, 4,400 Sanagra tablets and 68, 963 other tablets, said a press release.
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Besides, 14,585 kgs of gold, 35,274 kgs of silver, 71,959 cosmetics items, 18,786 imitation jewelleries, 9,526 Sarees, 1,800 pieces of other clothing items, 466 pieces of readymade garments items, 1,942 cubic feet of timber, 5,536 kgs of tea leaves, 49,600 kgs of coal, 111 kgs of fishing nets, a statue made of precious stone, five trucks and covered vans, four private cars and microbuses, seven pick up vans, 25 CNG-run auto-rickshaws and easy bikes and 84 motorcycles were among the seized goods.
BGB also seized 31 weapons, two magazines, 84 rounds of bullets and 116 kgs of explosives.
Besides, legal action has been taken against 227 smugglers, 163 Bangladeshi citizens, nine Indian citizens and one Afgan citizen for crossing the border illegally, said Public Relations Officer of BGB Headquarters Md Shariful Islam.