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4 cops sued for allegedly threatening to kill man in crossfire in Ctg
A case was filed on Wednesday against six people, including four policemen, for allegedly harassing and threatening to kill a man in crossfire when he tried to recover his money saved with an NGO in Chattogram.
Kamrul Islam, assistant ward master of Agrabad Ma-O-Shishu Hospital, filed the case with the court of Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Shariful Islam, accusing them of threatening to kill him in crossfire.
Kamrul’s lawyer Jewel Das said his client filed the case with the magistrate court after getting no remedy from the higher police authorities as he sent his complaints in writing to the Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner and the Inspector General of Police in 2019.
Kamrul said that Chattogram Bandar police station’s former OC Mohiuddin Mahmud, former sub-inspectors Rabiul Islam and KM Jannat Sajal, city DB’s former sub-inspector Mangal Bikash Chakma and Bandar area’s residents Jamal Farazi and Milon Farazi had threatened him to kill in crossfire on false charges of extortion.
Magistrate Kazi Shariful Islam accepted the case and asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate it.
According to the case statement, Kamrul and some 35 others opened account with NGO ‘Disha Foundation’ to save money on monthly basis in the Bandar area in 2011.
Later, the NGO authorities closed its office without paying the money in 2016. Kamrul said all the accused had harassed him when he attempted to get his money back.
Kamrul said the accused implicated him in a false case after he filed a case against them for harassment. He was subsequently freed on bail after passing four days in prison involving the case.
Man gets death sentence for killing and raping girl in Chattogram
A court in Chattogram on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old man to death for killing a young girl after raping her four years ago.
Chattogram Divisional Speedy Trail Tribunal Judge Halim Ullah Chowdhury also fined defendant Siraj Munna, a resident of Hathazari upazila in Chattogram, Tk 1 lakh, said Riad Uddin, a counsel of the plaintiff.
The court, however, acquitted the parents--Shahjahan Siraj and Nigar Sultana—as the allegations against them could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Lawyer Riad Uddin said they would appeal the verdict as he was not happy with the acquittal.
According to the case statement, Munna kidnapped the girl who was a Grade-VIII student of Hathazari Girls’ High School and College on September 14, 2018. Both lived in the same building in Shahjalal Para of the upazila.
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Munna strangled the girl to death after raping her as she resisted and screamed.
Police arrested Munna while trying to flee from the area on September 16 that year.
Later, the victim’s elder brother filed a case against Munna ad his parents.
Police pressed charges against them on July 10, 2019.
Munia rape, murder: PBI finds no evidence against Bashundhara MD, 8 others
The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) has said it has not found any evidence against Bashundhara Group Managing Director Sayem Sobhan Anvir and eight other accused in college student Mosarat Jahan Munia rape and murder case.
It also recommended their acquittal from the charges.
The PBI submitted the report to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court of Dhaka on Tuesday, said Deputy Inspector Saifur Rahman, the general recording officer of the court.
Munia's sister Nusrat Jahan filed the case with Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 against the eight people on 6 September, 2021.
The other accused in the case are – Anvir's father Bashundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, his mother Afroza Begum, wife Sabrina, Sharmin, Saifa Rahman Mim, Faria Mahbub Piasha and Ibrahim Ahmed Ripon.
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Later, the case was handed over to the PBI for investigation.
Earlier on August 19, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rajesh Chowdhury relieved Anvir of the charge of incitement to suicide of the college student.
On July 19, the investigating officer of the case, Gulshan Police Station officer-in-charge Abul Hasan, submitted a final report to the court giving a clean chit to Anvir.
Anvir was not found culpable in the suicide incitement case of Munia in the final report submitted by the investigating officer and asked for his name to be dropped.
On April 26, police recovered the hanging body of Munia from a flat in the capital's Gulshan area.
Munia's elder sister, Nusrat Jahan Tania, filed a case against Anvir that night accusing him of incitement to suicide.
According to Tania, her sister, Munia, was in a relationship with Anvir who regularly visited her at the Gulshan apartment.
Dhaka court frames charges against contractor Shamim, mother in graft case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday framed charges against "influential" contractor GK Shamim and his mother Ayesha Akter in a disproportionate assets case.
Judge Sheikh Nazmul Alam of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-4, framed the charges against the mother-son duo for corruption and fixed November 7 as the next date for hearing the testimonies of witnesses in the case, said Belal Hossain, a court official.
Framing of charge is vital to a criminal case as it gives the accused precisely what the prosecution intends to prove against them.
Shamim and his mother have been charged with graft for acquiring excessive assets -- worth over Tk 298 crore -- by corrupt means, the court official said.
Earlier, on December 22, 2020, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) approved the chargesheet against Shamim and his mother in the graft case.
He was arrested with illegal firearms and a huge amount of money from his Niketan office on September 20, 2019, during a drive against illegal casinos and other businesses.
Seven of his bodyguards were also arrested during the raid.
Rab members seized Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDRs) worth Tk 165 crore, Tk 1.81 crore in cash and a huge amount of foreign currencies.
A foreign-made pistol, seven shotguns and a huge cache of bullets were also seized from the office of ‘GKB & Company Pvt Limited’.
The elite force lodged three complaints – one under the narcotics control act, another under the money-laundering prevention act, and the third under the arms acts – against Shamim with Gulshan police the next day.
Jhenaidah: Jamaat leader gets 17 yrs in jail in arms act case
A Jhenaidah court has sentenced a local Jamaat-e-Islami leader to 17 years in jail in an arms act case.
Judge Md Nazimuddoula of the Jhenaidah Senior Special Tribunal Judge's Court, handed down the punishment to Muabia Hossain, secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami's Kotchandpur upazila wing, on Tuesday.
According to the prosecution, police arrested Muabia, also a former vice-chairman of Kotchandpur upazila parishad, from near the parishad office on February 22, 2016.
Based on his interrogation, police recovered a gun and six rounds of bullets from the Sulemanpur area.
Later, a case was filed against him at Kotchandpur Police Station in this connection.
After the investigation, police submitted a chargesheet to the court on May 25, 2016.
"After examining the records and witnesses, the court handed down the judgment," said Public Prosecutor Ismail Hossain Badshah.
Man held with 13 kg gold bars at Benapole
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday detained a man and seized 106 pieces of gold bars, weighing a combined 13 kg along Bengda border in Jhikorgacha upazila of Jashore district.
The detainee was identified as Saju Ahmed, 20, son of Abdul Salam of Chougaccha upazila.
Acting on a tip-off, a team of BGB-49 conducted a drive along the bordering area and detained a man in the afternoon, said commanding officer of BGB-49 Lieutenant Colonel Shahed Minhaz Siddique.
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Later, the BGB men seized the gold bars after searching his body.
The market value of the seized gold bars is Tk 12.22 crore.
A complaint has been lodged with Jhikorgacha Police Station.
Another Rohingya stabbed to death inside Cox’s Bazar camp
Unidentified assailants stabbed to death a Rohingya said to be vocal against the activities of militant group ARSA at a camp in Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday night.
The deceased is identified as Hafez Syed Hossain, a resident of the No 19 Tanjimarkhola camp at the Rohingya camp.
Saiful Islam, a resident of the camp, said the miscreants wearing masks stabbed Hafez with sharp weapons indiscriminately and left him dead on the spot.
“The terrorists left the spot firing blanks to create panic among residents,” he said, suspecting that the attackers might be members of ‘ARSA’.
"Hafez Sayed was vocal against terrorism activities of ARSA which might have led to the killing," he said.
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Faruk Ahmed, assistant superintendent of police of the Armed Police Battalion (APBN), said they have been looking into the reason behind the murder and efforts are on to nab the criminals.
Mentionable, unidentified assailants slaughtered two Rohingya leaders in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Ukhiya upazila on October 16.
Moulvi Yunus and Anwar, served as head majhi and sub-head majhi respectively of camp number 13 in Ukhiya.
Including the latest killing, 14 people have been killed inside the camps during the last four months, of whom eight were serving in voluntary community leadership roles such as 'majhi' and head majhi.
HC issues rule on military court verdicts against 88 officers during Zia's rule
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking why the military court verdicts on 88 people during the regime of President Ziaur Rahman should not be declared illegal.
The HC bench of Justice KM Kamrul Quader and Justice Mohammad Ali issued the rule after hearing a writ petition in this regard.
The rule also sought to know why the convicts should not be treated as patriots by declaring the convictions and acts of the tribunal constituted under the Martial Law Regulations of 1977 illegal.
The Defence Secretary, Home Secretary and Law Secretary were asked to respond to the rule within four weeks.
On April 28 in 2019, a writ petition was filed in the High Court on behalf of 88 people including 14 officers who were sentenced to death and children of Army and Air Force officers who were sentenced to death in that military court.
Out of 88 people, 13 were sentenced to death, 33 were sentenced to various terms including life. And the remaining 42 people were fired from their post in 1977.
Supreme Court lawyer Matiur Rahman filed the writ petition on behalf of the convicts.
The writ sought the government’s directions to grant pay, other benefits, and pension to the convicts of the court in 2 October 1977 till their normal retirement from service.
Three SPs sent on compulsory retirement
Three police officers of the rank of Superintendent of Police (SPs) have been given compulsory retirement.
Public Security Division under the Home Ministry has already issued three separate notifications in this regard signed by its senior Secretary Md Akhtar Hossain on Tuesday.
Among the compulsorily retired Superintendents of Police, two are of the 12th batch and the other of the 15th batch of BCS police cadre.
Among these three retired police officers, Mohammad Shahidullah Chowdhury and Delwar Hossain Mia belong to the 12th batch of BCS police cadre and the other one Mirza Abdullahel Baki, a 15th batch officer of BCS police cadre.
Among them, Muhammad Shahidullah Chowdhury has been working as Superintendent of Police (TR) at Police headquarters, Md. Delwar Hossain Mia and Mirza Abdullahel Baki are working as Special Super (SS) in the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
The order will be effected immediately on public interest, the notification said.
Fugitive JMB member held in Gazipur
A team of the Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU), a specialized unit of Bangladesh Police, arrested a fugitive member of the banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Mouchak area of Gazipur's Kaliakair on Monday night.
The arrestee is Noor Alam Moaz,29, son of Abdul Aziz of East Naodabas in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat.
Tipped off, the ATU members conducted a drive in the area around 11:30pm and arrested him, said Mohammad Aslam Khan, Superintendent of Police (Media & Awareness wing of the ATU).
He was an accused in a case filed at Hathazari police station under the Explosive Substances Act in 2011. The trial of the case is underway.
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On December 26, 2010, some JMB men including Noor Alam carried out a bomb attack on police in Chattogram's Hathazari. Police arrested another JMB member Shamim Hasan from the spot.
However, Noor Alam managed to flee the scene and since then he remained absconding, he added.