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Anti Terrorism Unit rescues abducted victim from South Banasree; 5 held
Anti Terrorism Unit (ATU) conducted a drive at a flat of South Banasree Kazibari T&T Tower area in the city and rescued an abducted person and arresting five alleged kidnappers.
Six mobile phones, cash, sticks, hammers and ropes used in kidnapping were recovered from the possessions of the arrestees during the operation.
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The arrested alleged kidnappers were identified as Bilkis aka Tanya, 30, Md. Biplab, 30, Ibrahim Hossain Raju, 29, Lincoln Khalifa, 24, and Amir Sheikh, 30.
Md Sanwar Hossain, Superintendent of Police (Operations) of the ATP headquarters, said a male teacher of Bangladesh Open University was introduced to Bilkis on Facebook one week back. Since then, the arrested Bilkis kept contacting the victim, an Open University teacher, over Facebook on various pretexts, including seeking assistance regarding admissions in Open University.
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At one stage, the teacher went to Rampura Banasree area under Khilgaon police station to meet one of his brothers last Thursday morning. Being informed, Bilkis called the teacher over phone and requested him to meet her in front of the Banasree's 10 floor market for discussing admission in the Open University.
When the victim teacher went there, the arrested Bilkis, along with her accomplices forcibly kidnapped him and took him to the 6th floor flat of a house in Dakshin Banasree Kazibari T&T Tower area.
Later, the abductors threatened to kill the victim, tied his hands and feet and tortured him with sticks and hammers and took away Cash Tk3,000/- and from bkash account of Tk 20,000. Besides, they also recorded an offensive video of the victim on mobile phone and threatened to spread it on the internet.
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To relief from torture, the arrested kidnappers asked the victim to bring a ransom of Tk 2,00,000/- from his family on the same day. Finding no other alternatives, the victim communicated with the husband of his sister over phone and requested him to send Tk 2 lakh through Bkash number given by the accused.
As the victim's phone was switched off and he did not return home on Wednesday, the victim's sister-in-law became suspicious and filed a general diary at Kalabagan police station in the capital (GD No. 318 of Kalabagan police station, dated October 5).
The next following day on Thursday, the abducted teacher again contacted his brother-in-law over phone and asked him to send the money. Finally, the victim's brother-in-law sent Tk45,000/- two times through Bkash.
In the meantime, family members of the victim informed the ATU headquarters about the matter. Following the complaint, the ATU conducted the drive at Banasree with the help of local Khilgaon thana police on Friday night at around 10:45 pm and rescued the victim, arresting the five abductors.
Eldest son of man whose headless body was found in Patenga held in Dhaka
Members of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) arrested the eldest son of a man whose decapitated body was recently found in Chattogram’s Patenga Beach, from Dhaka’s Hazaribagh early Saturday.
The arrestee was named as Shafiqur Rahman Jahangir, eldest son of Md Hasan, whose decapitated body was recovered on September 22.
With this, four people including the victim’s wife Chhenowara Begum, another son Mostafizur Rahman and Shafiqur’s wife Anarkoli have so far been arrested in the incident.
Md Illias Khan, investigation officer of the case and inspector of Chattogram metro PBI, confirmed the arrest of eldest son Shafiqur saying that the arrestee was brought back to Chattogram from Dhaka and taken to Patenga to recover the missing head.
“We searched for the head but are yet to recover it till Saturday evening,” he said, adding that they earlier combed the area for the head taking Anarkoli on September 1 and 2.
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He said the gruesome killing was committed in Shafiqur's house, and later the body was chopped. The body, except the head and some other parts, was put inside a suitcase of Anarkoli and dumped in Patenga Sea Beach.
The head was wrapped in polythene and was left on the beach,with other parts in a canal on Akmal Ali Road of the city, the PBI officer said.
parts left in the canal were recovered on September 23 and only the head is still missing.On September 22, police recovered the decapitated body of Hasan, son of Sahab Miah of Boraitali area under Kathariya union of Banshkhali upazila in Chattogram district, from inside the suitcase in the Patenga area.
Initially, the identity of the deceased could not be known but later identified through fingerprint.
Patenga police station’s Sub-inspector Abdul Kadir filed a case in this connection. The PBI arrested the victim’s wife, son Mostafizur and sister-in-law Anarkoli.
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Hasan had no connection with his family over the past 30 years but he returned to the family around one year back when a dispute initiated between him, his wife and two sons over sharing his huge property.
The mother along with two sons planned to kill Hasan to grab all his property, police said.
As per the plan, Chhenowar Begum and her two sons strangled Hasan to death and chopped the body into nine pieces.
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Police arrest extortionist with revolver, chapatti from Mirpur
Police arrested an alleged extortionist of Mirpur area in the capital on charge of stabbing a shop owner for failing to collect and hand over the amount of extortion money required.
A Sub-Inspector of police also received stab injuries while conducting raids to arrest the perpetrator, said officer-in-charge (OC) of Mirpur Model Police Station Mohammad Mohsin.
The arrestee was identified as Fahim Ahmed, who is well known in the area as Chapati Fahim.
Fahim used to collect extortion money from local traders. If someone refused to pay the demanded money or complained against him, he resorted to attacking them with a chapati. Everyone knows him as Chapati Fahim as he goes around with chapati in his hand while extorting money, the OC said.
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Fahim had been demanding money from a shop owner named Tanvir, 30, of Shewrapara area for last several days. As Tanvir refused to pay the demanded money, Fahim went to the shop again to collect tolls on Friday morning. Failing to realise the tolls, he hacked the shop owner with his chapati and reportedly took away Tk 2500 from the shop.
Being informed, a team of Mirour Model thana police led by SI Sohel Rana conducted a raid at Shewrapara area on Friday evening and arrested him at around 5:45 pm. Later, based on the information given by him, a revolver and the chapati were recovered from his house at night.
The OC said that Fahim was trying to flee the scene after stabbing SI Sohel Rana during the drive. Sohel Rana was given first aid.
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He also said that the arrested Fahim is a identified extortionist of Mirpur. There are several cases against him at different police stations in the city.
He was arrested two months earlier on charges of extortion. After being released from jail 10 days ago, he started extortion again.
A case was filed with Mirpur Police station in connection with the incident.
Replying to a question, the OC said that Fahim was produced before a Dhaka CMM court seeking police remand Saturday.
After hearing, the court granted one day remand for interrogation, the OC added.
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2.55 lakh yaba pills seized along Myanmar border region in Cox’s Bazar: BGB
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 2.55 lakh pieces of yaba pills along the Myanmar border in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Thursday night.
The border force was unable to detain anyone in this connection.
According to a media release signed by Lt Col Md Mohiuddin Ahmed, commnding officer of the BGB-2 in Teknaf, several teams of the BGB took position in the Acharbunia area along the Myanmar border after being tipped off that a big consignment of yaba pills would be smuggled into Bangladesh from the neighbouring country.
At around 10:00 pm, the BGB patrol team saw two men carrying plastic bags on their shoulders, crossing the zero line of the border, and coming towards the salt field in the Acharbunia Beribandh area. BGB patrols challenged them as their movements were found suspicious.
Sensing the presence of the law enforcers, the two fled the scene, leaving the bags behind. Later, a total of 2.55 lakh pieces of yaba pills were recovered from the abandoned bags, said the release.
Though the BGB members conducted drivers until 11:30 pm in the area, the peddlers could not be detained, the release added.
Ex-ACC official's death in custody: Two ASIs suspended
Two policemen have been suspended over the death of Syed Mohammad Shahidullah, former Deputy Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), in police custody in Chattogram.
Chandgaon police station Assistant Sub-Inspectors (ASI) Md Yusuf Ali and ATM Sohel Rana were both suspended Thursday through an order signed by Additional Commissioner of CMP MA Masud, and attached to the Dampara police line.
Shahidullah, 64, died in the custody of Chandgaon police station officials in Chattogram city in the small hours of Wednesday.
Spina Rani Pramanik, additional deputy commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (Public Relations), said two assistant sub-inspectors of Chandgaon Police Station have been attached to the police lines for the purpose of investigation.
Meanwhile, the CMP formed a three-member committee to investigate whether there was any violation of the rules in the arrest of the former ACC officer. The committee consists of deputy commissioner of Police (Detective Branch-North) as convenor, additional deputy commissioner of Police (North) as member secretary and assistant commissioner of Police (city Special Branch) as member.
The committee also asked to submit the inquiry report within three days.
Earlier on Tuesday night, Chandgaon police brought Shahidullah to the police station from his home in One Kilometer area of Bahaddar Hat in Chattogram city.
Nafis Shahid, son of the victim Shahidullah, said: "Two assistant sub inspectors of Chandgaon police station brought my father to the police station from our home. Later, we came to know that my father was arrested in a case."
He alleged negligence on the part of police officials as the reason behind his father's death.
"My father is a heart patient. They did not even let us give him his heart medicine and inhaler. They closed the gate of the police station after taking him in. They misbehaved with my father. The police deliberately killed my father by not allowing him to take medicine,” he said.
According to the police, Shahidullah was arrested and taken to the police station following a warrant issued by a court on charges of threats and defamation.
When he was taken to the OC's room of Chandgaon police station, he fell sick. His younger brother, who was accompanying him, sprayed Shahidullah with the inhaler.
Later, police took him to the private Parkview Hospital where doctors declared him dead around 12:30 am.
‘False and fabricated’: Dr Yunus’ lawyer says about Tk 25.22cr embezzlement case
Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus’ lawyer Abdullah Al Mamun has called the lawsuit over alleged embezzlement of Tk 25.22 crore “false, baseless and fabricated.”
He came up with the remark while replying to questions from journalists over the appearance of Dr Yunus at Anti-Corruption Commission earlier this morning.
The lawyer said the former employees and workers of Grameen Telecom were paid the dividends in line with the rule.
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Earlier, Grameen Telecom Chairman Dr Yunus defended himself, saying, “I have committed no crime, and I’m not afraid,” when he appeared before the ACC this morning.
Dr Yunus said, “I was called, so I came. I have nothing to say about the allegations. It is a legal issue and my lawyers will talk.”
He was there for questioning in the case filed over alleged misappropriation from Grameen Telecom’s Workers’ Profit Participation Fund (WPPF).
The Nobel laureate accompanied by his lawyers entered the ACC before 10 am and an ACC team led by Assistant Director Benjir Ahmed questioned him from 10:37 am to 10:58 am.
Earlier on Wednesday, the ACC questioned three directors of Grameen Telecom.
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On Tuesday, the ACC in a letter asked Dr Yunus and others to appear today (Thursday) for questioning in the misappropriation case.
In the letter to Dr Yunus dated September 27, the ACC said Dr Yunus’ statement was crucial for the thorough investigation of the embezzlement case involving Tk 25.22 crore against 13 accused, including the management council of Grameen Telecom Company.
Based on the allegations of embezzlement of dividends of the workers, the ACC conducted an investigation and filed a case based on the report from the Department Of Inspection for Factories and Establishments.
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ACC’s Deputy Director Gulshan Anowar Pradhan filed the case against Dr Yunus and 12 others for misappropriation of about Tk 25 crore from the company’s WPPF fund on May 30 this year.
2 sentenced to life in prison in drug trafficking case
A Natore court sentenced two people, including a woman, to life imprisonment in a case filed for trafficking heroin, on Thursday.
Natore Senior District and Sessions Judge Md Sharif Uddin passed the order in the presence of the convicts Fatema Begum (45) and Masud Rana (34).
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The judge also fined them Tk 20,000 each in default of which they have to serve six more months in jail.
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion tried to stop a speeding motorcycle in the Chakbaidyanath area of Natore City on January 21 this year, said Assistant Public Prosecutor Arif Sarkar.
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At that time, Fatema and Masud, who were on a motorcycle, tried to escape by leaving the motorcycle but got caught. Later, Fatema’s bag was searched, and 210 gramms of heroin were recovered, said Arif.
Later, RAB filed a case against them, he said.
Bar assistant association’s leader dies in Bogura DB custody, says family
A leader of a bar assistant association died allegedly in the custody of the Detective Branch of Bogura police on Tuesday night, triggering anger among lawyers.
The victim--Habibur Rahman Habib, 35, was the son of Abdul Kuddus Bablu of Jhora village under Bogura’s Shahjahanpur and joint general secretary of the association.
His family and colleagues alleged that he was tortured to death, and he was physically sound.
They alleged that Habib was picked up by some DB members from in front of a Bogura court around 5 pm on Tuesday when he came out of the court.
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The victim’s maternal uncle advocate Manjurul Huq, senior member of Bogura District Bar Association, said that hearing this news he rushed to the office of Superintendent of Police, but he was not allowed to enter.
“Later, around 9pm, I came to know that Habib died and his body was kept at Mohammad Ali Hospital,” he said.
Dr Atikujjaman, a physician of Mohammad Ali Hospital’s emergency Department, said some DB personnel brought Habib unconscious at 7pm and then was admitted to the medicine ward of the hospital.
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Dr Shafik Amin Kajal, resident doctor of the hospital, said police informed them that Habib felt pain in his chest when he was in the DB office.
The patient breathed his last around 9pm while undergoing treatment, he said, adding that the Habib remained unconscious for two hours. There were injury marks in his body.
Refusing the allegation of torturing Habib, Mostafiz Hasan, inspector at Bogura DB police, said that he was the prime accused in a 10-year-old boy murder case lodged around 10 years back in Shahjahanpur upazila.
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The boy’s stepmother Khuki Begum was one of the witnesses of the case and she was murdered on last August 2, a few days before the scheduled date of giving testimony, he said. Her body without a leg was recovered from Jhora village.
Around one month after the murder, the missing leg was recovered from a septic tank of one Morowara Begum, a neighbour of the victim, the DB official said.
The neighbour was also detained for interrogation and she admitted that Habib and others killed Khuki.
On the basis of the statement, Habib was arrested from the court area and brought him before Monowara Begum. The official added that Habib complained of his chest pain at that time.
He was rushed to Mohammad Ali Hospital where he died around 9pm while undergoing treatment, the inspector said. The body was sent to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Bogura’s SP Sudipto Kumar Chakraborty said Habib was kept in the DB office for 45 minutes and taken to the hospital when he fell sick.
He was not tortured in the DB custody, but an investigation would be opened as the allegation of torture surfaced, the SP said.
No politics behind denying permission for Khaleda’s treatment abroad: Law Minister
Law Minister Anisul Huq on Wednesday (October 04, 2023) said there was no politics in not letting BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia go abroad for treatment.
"It's a legal matter, there's no question of politics here. Her (Khaleda Zia's) family had filed an application, which has been disposed of. It was not in the law that she will be allowed to go abroad through this application. There was already a condition that she cannot go abroad, now there is no chance of changing it,” he said.
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The law minister said these at a press conference at the Secretariat.
“BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir presented false, baseless and misleading information over the matter at a press conference,” he alleged.
Asked whether there is any scope to change Khaleda Zia's conditional release, the law minister said if the condition is given, it should be obeyed. “I think the prime minister has done whatever is possible through exercising her power, there is no scope to use the power again.”
Replying to another question the law minister said if anyone seeks prudential clemency, he/she has to confess the guilt. “. It is a constitutional right that anyone can appeal to the president.”
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On October 1, the Law Ministry rejected an application of Khaleda Zia’s family seeking permission for sending her abroad for treatment.
On September 18, the government once again extended the suspension of Khaleda Zia’s jail term by another six months.
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The 78-year-old former prime minister has been suffering from various ailments, including liver cirrhosis, arthritis, diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems.
Court fixes October 8 to deliver verdict in graft case against PK Halder, 13 others
A Dhaka court on Wednesday fixed October 8 for delivering verdict in a case against disgraced director of International Leasing and Finance Service Ltd (ILFSL) Proshanto Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, and 13 others over amassing wealth illegally and money laundering.
Dhaka Special Judge Court-10 Judge Mohammad Nazrul Islam fixed the date upon ending arguments from the both Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the defendants on Wednesday, said ACC counsel Mir Ahammad Ali Salam.
The other accused included Sukumar Mridha, Anindita Mridha, Avantika Baral, Shankh Bepari, PK Halder's mother Lilavati Halder, Purnima Rani Halder, Uttam Kumar Mistri, Amitabh Adhikari, Pritish Kumar Halder, Rajib Som, Subrata Das, Anang Mohan Roy and Swapan Kumar Mistri.
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Of them, Sukumar Mridha, Anindita Mridha, Avantika Baral and Shankh Bepari are now behind the bars.
Mamunur Rashid Chowdhury, assistant director of Dhaka Integrated District Office of the ACC, filed the case against PK Haldar for acquiring around Tk 275 crore illegally on January 8, 2020.
According to the case statement, PK Halder has acquired wealth worth almost Tk 275 crore beyond known sources of income through illegal activities and kept them in his possession.
The ACC investigated the case and submitted a charge sheet to the court. In the charge sheet, the anti-graft watchdog accused Halder of laundering CAD 1.17 crore to Canada through illegal means.
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A Dhaka court framed charges against the accused on September 8, 2021.
On May 13 this year, India's federal economic offences police arrested PK Halder and his two associates from the eastern state of West Bengal.He is now in an Indian jail.
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