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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.
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.