Law-&-Order
HC orders probe into rent of Metro rail canteen
The High Court (HC) on Thursday directed the authorities concerned to investigate the matter over fixing Tk 1000 as monthly rent for a 7,580-square feet staff canteen at Uttara Depot of Mass Rapid Transit Line-6.
The High Court bench of justices Mustafa Zaman Islam and Md Atabullah passed the order after hearing the petition on Thursday.
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The HC asked the roads and transport secretary to investigate the matter and submit a report within a month.
The court also issued a rule seeking an explanation as to why a circular announcing that the canteen is being rented out for Tk 1,000 per a month should not be declared illegal.
Barrister Tanvir Ahmed stood for the petitioner while Assistant Attorney General Salim Azad represented the state.
On March 14, a DMTCL circular signed by General Manager (Stores and Procurement) Nazrul Islam was issued, renting out the canteen for Tk 1,000 per month and Tk 12,000 per year excluding income tax and VAT.
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The circular mentioned that the tender of Khandaker Enterprise has been deemed acceptable by the DMTCL.
Later, Supreme Court lawyer Barrister Tanvir Ahmed filed the writ challenging the decision of the DMTCL.
Abontika’s death: Suspended JnU student Amman lands in jail after remand
A Cumilla court on Wednesday sent Jagannath University’s suspended student Raihan Siddique Amman to jail after completion of his two- day remand in a case over the death of Law Department student Fairuz Abontika by suicide.
Judge of Cumilla Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Abu Bakar Siddique passed the order when he was produced before the court after remand.
The court also denied bail to Din Islam, a teacher of the university who was relived from proctor post for suspected connection with the death.
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A Cumilla court on Monday placed Amman and teacher Din Islam on a two and one-day remand respectively in the case.
On Tuesday, the court sent Din Islam to jail on completion of his one-day remand.
The court also ordered the investigation officer of the case filed to submit a report within seven days.
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Abontika, a student of the 2017-18 academic year of the JnU Law Department, hanged herself at her Cumilla residence after accusing her classmate Amman and relieved assistant proctor Din Islam in a Facebook post around 10 pm on Friday.
In the Facebook post before committing suicide, Abantika said that Amman Siddique and Din Islam would be responsible for her suicide.
Hours after death of Abontika by suicide, massive protest broke out and continued till Saturday morning, demanding justice for the student.
In the face of student movement, the university authorities were compelled to relieve the assistant proctor and suspend the student to assuage the movement.
Besides, the university administration formed a four-member probe committee.
Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the teacher and student from Dhaka on Saturday night.
HC orders MP Salam Murshedy to hand over Gulshan house to govt
The High Court on Tuesday (March 19, 2024) ordered Khulna-4 MP and vice president of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) Abdus Salam Murshedy to hand over his residence in Gulshan to the Housing and Public Works Ministry.
The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Kazi Ebadoth Hossain passed the order and asked Murshedy to complete the process within three months after receiving the copy of the verdict.
The court also said that the residence in Gulshan where Salam Murshedy is living is an abandoned property of the government.
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Senior Advocate Mohammad Syed Ahmed stood for Murshedy, Senior Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan for Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) while deputy attorney general Saifuddin Khaled represented the state and Advocate Anik R Haque stood for the petitioner.
Advocate Syed said they will file an appeal petition challenging the verdict.
On October 30, 2022, Barrister Sayedul Haque Sumon filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking an inquiry into the allegations of corruption against the BFF official.
According to the writ petition, the house located in Gulshan-2 was listed as the abandoned house under the gazette in 1986. But Murshedy is living there after occupying it.
Three letters of the Housing and Public Works Ministry to the chairman of Rajuk issued on April 13, 2015, January 20, 2016 and July 4, 2022 were attached to the writ petition.
The Housing and Public Works Ministry sought explanation from Rajuk Chairman over the occupation of the house by Murshedy .
On November 1, 2022, the HC issued a rule asking the government to explain as to why the inaction of the authorities concerned in taking legal steps against the AL lawmaker for occupying the house illegally, should not be declared beyond legal authority.
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It also asked the authorities concerned to submit all documents regarding the house to the court.
On February 8 this year, the ACC in its investigation found the allegations of forgery and fraud over the house true and on the basis of information of witnesses and documents, the ACC filed a case against five people including Murshedy.
Dhaka court sentences 9 including Hallmark MD Tanvir, wife to life imprisonment
A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced nine people including Hallmark Group Managing Director (MD) Md Tanvir Mahmud and its Chairman and Tanvir’s wife Jesmin Islam to life imprisonment in a case filed over the misappropriation of over Tk 525.62 crore from the state-owned Sonali Bank.
Judge Md Abul Kashem of Dhaka Special Judge Court-1 also sentenced eight more accused including a senior officer of Sonali Bank to 10 years’ jail in the same case.
Others receiving life sentence include Hallmark Group General Manager Tushar Ahmed, T and Brothers Director Taslim Hasan, Max Spinning Mills owner Mir Zakaria, Paragon Group Managing Director Saiful Islam Raja, Nakshi Knit Managing Director Md. Abdul Malek, Abul Matin and Taslim Hasan.
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Those sentenced to 10 years in prison are: Savar’s Tetuljhora Union Parishad Chairman Md Jamal Uddin Sarkar; the then Sonali Bank’s Dhanmondi Branch Senior Executive Officer Meherunnesa Merry; former GMs of the bank’s head office Noni Gopal Nath, Mir Mahidul Rahman, MD Humayun Kabir; Deputy GM Moinul Haque; DGM Safiz Uddin; and AGM Md Kamrul Hossain Khan.
Though the court set February 28 for delivering the judgment of the case, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted an appeal to the court to produce two more witnesses.
Accepting the appeal, the court later took testimony from the witnesses and set March 19 for final delivery of the judgment.
ACC filed the case accusing Hallmark MD Tanvir and others bringing the allegations of embezzlement of Tk 525 crore, 62 lakh and 92,800 with Ramna Police Station on October 4, 2012.
After investigating, ACC submitted chargesheet accusing 26 people on October 7, 2013.
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A Dhaka court framed charges against the accused on February 17 and 27 in 2016.
A total of 11 cases were lodged in the Hallmark scam while the judgment of one of the cases was delivered on Tuesday.
Lakshmipur Jubo League leader’s eye gouged, no arrest so far
Miscreants gouged a local Jubo League leader’s eye in Sadar upazila of Lakshmipur last night.
The victim, identified as Kamal Hossain, is president of Awami League’s youth wing Jubo League’s ward 3 unit under Bashikpur union and a fruit seller at the local Poddar Bazar.
Police and locals said Kamal came under attack on his way to Poddar Bazar from his house around 8:30 pm.
The miscreants obstructed his way, attacked him with rods and gouged his right eye when he reached Nandigram, leaving him critically injured, they said.
Hearing his screams, locals rushed to him and took him initially to Sadar Hospital. He was later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) due to his critical condition.
Dr Anowar Hossain, resident medical officer of Sadar Hospital, said there were marks of injuries on several parts of his body including head, face, nose and eyes.
Due to his critical condition, he was referred to DMCH, he said.
Chandraganj police station Officer-in-Charge Md Enamul Hoque said there had long been a dispute between the victim and a fertilizer trader of the Poddar Bazar. This dispute might have led to the attack.
Drives are on to arrest the accused involved with the incident, the police officer said.
Storekeeper jailed for 3 years for amassing illegal wealth
A Rangpur court on Monday sentenced a storekeeper of Rangpur Family Planning Office to three years imprisonment in a case filed for acquiring illegal wealth worth more than Tk1 crore.
Md Haider Ali, judge of Rangpur Special Judge Court, handed down the judgment this afternoon.
The convict is Hamidur Rahman, son of Najibor Rahman Mandal of Keshabpur village of Sadar Upazila of Naogaon district.
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The court also fined him Tk 7,40,745 and ordered to deposit the money to the government treasury within the next 60 working days.
Jalal Uddin, deputy assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (Rangpur office) filed the case on July 27, 2011, against Hamidur Rahman for his alleged involvement in acquiring illegal wealth.
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Later, a charge sheet was filed against him in the court.
Haroon ur Rashid, a special public prosecutor at the court, said that the accused came to the court but fled before the judgment.
The court ordered to issue an arrest warrant against him, he said.
4 suspected robbers lynched in Narayanganj
Four suspected robbers were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Baghri village in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj on Sunday night.
Another youth injured in the mob attack was admitted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR).
However, the identities of the deceased couldn’t be known immediately.
Sheikh Billal Hossain, additional superintendent of police (circle-Kha) of Narayanganj, said a youth saw some 10 to 12 unidentified youths roaming in the village around 10 pm.
When he announced presence of robbers in the village using loudspeaker of a local mosque, some residents of three villages besieged the youths and gave them a good thrashing, leaving three of them dead on the spot, he said.
One injured victim died when he was taken to a hospital, he said, adding that another is undergoing treatment at the NITOR.
A daring robbery occurred in two houses in Kazadi area under the same upazila on Friday night.
The robbers stabbed inmates of the houses when they tried to resist the robbers.
Former ‘member of outlawed party’ shot dead in Pabna
A man, said to be a former activist of outlawed Purbo Banglar Sarbohara Party, was shot dead by some unidentified miscreants at Maniknagar Bazar in Gayeshpur of Pabna sadar upazila on Sunday night.
The deceased was identified as Abdur Razzak Sheikh, 38, son of late Azizul Sheikh of Harinarayanpur village of the upazila.
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Witnesses said Abdur Razzak went to Maniknagar bazar to have tea after Taraweeh prayers on Sunday. When he was sitting in a tea shop some 5-6 unknown miscreants appeared there on two motorcycles and fled after shooting him three times in a row.
Later, locals took him to Pabna General Hospital where the duty doctor declared him dead, said Pabna Additional Superintendent of Police Masud Alam.
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Abdur Razzak, who was a member of the banned outlawed outfit Purba Banglar Sarbohara Party, surrendered to Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at Pabna district stadium in 2019.
The body was sent to Pabna General Hospital morgue for autopsy, said the SP.
2 ‘drug traders’ held with heroin in Gazipur
-Police in a drive arrested two alleged drug traders along with 1.456 kgs of heroin from Lakshmipura area of gazipur City Corporation on Sutarday.
The arrestees are Fahad Hossain, 27, son of Al Amin of Balugram village of Chapainawabganj district and Safat Hossain, 20, son of Semajul Islam of the same area.
Khairul Alam, additional deputy commissioner (Crime, North) of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, disclosed this information in a press briefing on Sunday afternoon.
Tipped off, several teams of Sadar police station took a position on the paved road in front of the gate of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute in Lakshmipura area of the city on Saturday.
Being suspicious, police intercepted a truck and recovered the heroin worth Tk 1.5 crore from 14 polythene packets hiding under the driving seat of the truck.
Efforts are underway to identify and arrest others involved in drug dealing, added the officer.
Man killed by friend only for Tk 1000
After recovering the body of a 22-year-old mason on March 13 from Pabna's Soyghoria village, police said on Sunday that he was murdered by his close friend over money-related issues.
After killing Azad Hossain, 22, his friend Abdus Samad alias Somrat, 28, wanted to cover up the murder by dumping the body in a lychee orchard and covering it with dry leaves of the trees, said police.
Masud Alam, additional superintendent of police, said that Azad left the house with his motorcycle at 7:30 pm on March 11 and did not return. His father Abdul Hakim filed a general diary (GD) at Pabna Sadar Police Station on March 12 afternoon.
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On March 13, locals found the body in the lychee orchard next to the farm of Mosharraf Chairman of Soyghoria village of Dapunia Union and informed police.
On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Pabna General Hospital morgue for an autopsy. Later, a case was filed following the complaint of the victim’s father Abdul Hakim.
A joint team of Sadar Police Station and DB conducted a raid and arrested the accused Abdus Samad alias Somrat from his locality on Saturday afternoon.
During interrogation, Somrat confessed to the killing of his friend Azad.
Police said Somrat and Azad were close friends and worked as masons together. A month ago, Somrat took Azad’s motorcycle and got into an accident. Following the accident, Azad had to spend Tk 2000 to repair the motorcycle.
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Somrat gave Tk 1000 out of it. Later, animosity was created between the two friends over the remaining Tk 1,000. Since then, the accused Somrat had been looking for an opportunity to kill his friend Azad.
Around 8 pm on March 11, Somrat called his friend Azad and went to the litchi garden next to the Musharraf chairman's farm. At one stage of the conversation, Somrat stabbed Azad’s neck and eyes with a sharp knife.
After confirming his death, he dragged the body and covered it under the dry leaves of trees.
On Saturday afternoon, Somrat gave a confessional statement before the court.
Later, he was sent to jail.