Arrest
3 held over killing Jubo Dal leader in Jashore
Three people were arrested in a case filed over the murder of a Jubo Dal leader from Jashore town Thursday morning.
The detainees were Al Amin, Raihan, 25, and Icha Mir, 20, of the town.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6) detained Al Amin this morning, said Rab-6 Jashore squad commander ASP Shafiqur Rahman.
Police arrested Raihan, prime accused in the case, and Icha Mir from the town in the morning, said Superintendent of Police (SP) Prolay Kumar at a press conference.
During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that there had been a dispute between local BNP leader Shamim Ahmed Manua and deceased Jubo Dal leader Badiuzzaman Dhani over establishing dominance. Dhani was also made an accused in the murder case of Manua's son-in-law Yasin following the dispute.
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Later, Manua’s nephew Raihan killed Dhani following the instruction of Manua, said SP Prolay.
On Tuesday noon, Dhani, 42, senior vice president of Jashore District Jubo Dal, was hacked to death allegedly by some miscreants in Jashore town.
Some miscreants hacked Dhani indiscriminately at Chopdar Para in Shankarpur around 12pm and fled the scene, leaving him seriously injured, said Tajul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali police station.
Later, he was rushed to Jashore General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, he added.
Gang of muggers nabbed in city
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) said on Friday that the force detained 21 members of a mugging gang from the city’s Motijheel, Paltan, Shahjahanpur and Tejgaon area.
The elite force also seized sharp weapons and sedatives from them during the drive on Thursday.
A team of Rab-3 detained the muggers after conducting simultaneous drives in Motijheel, Paltan, Shahjahanpur and Tejgaon area on Thursday night, said Rab-3 Additional Superintendent Bina Rani Das.
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During primary interrogation, the alleged gang members said they usually hide in the alleys and mug pedestrians, rickshaw riders, and CNG-run auto-rickshaw passengers, brandishing sharp weapons. They also commit murder if anyone resists their bid.
The muggers are active in and around Khilgaon, Malibagh Rail Gate, Dainik Bangla intersection, Pir Jangi Mazar crossing, Kamalapur Battala, Motijheel Calvert Road, Nasirertek of Hatirjheel, Shahbagh, Gulbagh, Rajuk crossing, UBL crossing, Paltan intersection, Golap Shah Mazar crossing, High Court crossing, Abdul Gani Road, Maniknagar Stadium, Nandipara Bridge, and Basabo crossing from evening till dawn.
Legal steps are underway against the detainees, the official added.
Rights defenders, journalists demand release of Indian journalist Zubair
Human rights defenders and journalists at a program in Dhaka demanded the immediate release of Mohammed Zubair, an Indian journalist who co-founded the fact-checking website AltNews, following his arrest last Monday by a cyber unit of Delhi Police.
It followed a sustained campaign against Zubair on India's rightwing media for weeks, that sought to dig through his entire tweet history and highlight anything that might be deemed offensive.
They found their best bet in a tweet from 2018, in which Zubair had posted a screengrab from a 1983 Bollywood filman old movie on his Twitter handle in 2018 that was deemed derogatory against Hinduism, which was the reason behind Zubair’s arrest, claimed his lawyer Vrinda Grover.
After arresting Zubair, the Indian authority also seized his laptop. Vrinda Grover claimed that his laptop has nothing to do with the case, as the Indian media report. The lawyer argued that Zubair is targeted for his “name, faith and profession”.
“Zubair was arrested just for uncovering the truth,” Nur Khan Liton, a human rights defender, told media after attending a human chain in Dhaka on Sunday demanding immediate release of Zubair. “And the journalists in Bangladesh often suffer from the Digital Security Act as well. As human rights defenders, we want to stand by every victim of human rights violations around the globe.”
In 2017, Zubair co-founded AltNews with Pratik Sinha, which is today regarded as one of the biggest fact-checking websites in the world.
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“They (Indian authorities) say that they arrested Zubair for a Tweet insulting to religion. It’s not true,” Arifuzzaman Tuhin, a journalist based in Dhaka said. “He was actually arrested so that he cannot check the facts.”
Many in India remain convinced that the concerted campaign against Zubair was a reaction to him flagging the video of Nupur Sharma, the firebrand national spokesperson of the ruling BJP, from a tv appearance in May where she is seen speaking disrespectfully about Prophet Muhammad.
It caused an uproar that soon went international, as New Delhi's important allies in the Gulf, led by Qatar, took a strong stance on the issue. Eventually, the BJP had to fire Sharma from her post to handle the fallout.
Zubair was arrested based on a complaint made by a police officer. According to the local media, the police officer filed the complaint after noticing an objection to Zubair’s 2018 Tweet by a Twitter user.
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Senior officials of the Delhi Police told ANI that the arrest was made based on the complaint of a Twitter user Hanuman Bhakt @ balajikijaiin who tagged the Delhi Police in the four-year-old tweet by Zubair.
On Saturday, Zubair was produced before the Delhi court after a five-day police remand. The court has denied a bail plea made by Zubair’s lawyer. He, instead, is sent to jail for 14-day judicial custody.
College teacher Utpal murder: Prime accused held in Gazipur
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Wednesday detained the prime accused in Savar college teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker murder case from Gazipur district.
The arrestee is a class IX student of Haji Yunus Ali School and College at Ashulia of Dhaka’s Savar upazila college.
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Based on secret information, an operational team of the Rab-1 conducted a drive in Sreepur of Gazipur in the evening and detained the teenager around 7:00 pm, said ASP (media) Imran Khan of Rab headquarters.
Earlier, Ashulia thana police arrested the 9th grader’s father Uzzal Hossain , another accused of the case from Kushtia, four days after the teacher was beaten to death in broad daylight in Savar .
Uzzal was hiding with his family since the murder.
Although Uzzal was arrested his other family members managed to flee during a police drive.
Police said they recovered the cricket stump that was used in the killing.
According to Md Kamruzzaman, Officer In-charge (OC) of Ashulia police station, based on secret information Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Sub Inspector (SI) Emdad Hossain arrested Uzzal from Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila.
Police sent Uzzal to a court in Dhaka seeking a 10-day remand.
Students and teachers of the college alleged that the student killed Utpal, head of the disciplinary committee of the college, in a pre-planned way.
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“Utpal sir had caught the student (prime accused) with a girl inside a classroom and informed the family of the girl about the matter, which had created anger in him. That’s the reason why the student beat up Utpal sir to death on the sports day,” said a student of the college.
According to the college authorities, no CCTV footage of the crime was found as the cameras recorded nothing at that moment due to power outage.
The college authorities suspect that the boy had disconnected the power supply before killing Utpal.
Utpal Sarker, 35, son of Ajit Sarker of Engeldani village under Sirajganj’s Ullapara police station, had been serving as a teacher of Haji Yunus Ali School and College for almost ten years.
College teacher murder: Prime accused’s father arrested from Kushtia
Police arrested Uzzal Hossain, father of the prime accused in college teacher Utpal Kumar Sarker murder case, from Kushtia district on Wednesday, four days after the teacher was beaten to death in broad daylight in Savar .
The prime accused of the case is a 9th grader of Haji Yunus Ali School and College at Ashulia of Dhaka’s Savar upazila college.
Uzzal, also an accused in the case, was hiding with his family since the murder.
Although Uzzal was arrested his other family members managed to flee during a police drive.
Police said they recovered the cricket stump that was used in the killing.
According to Md Kamruzzaman, Officer In-charge (OC) of Ashulia police station, based on secret information Investigation Officer (IO) of the case Sub Inspector (SI) Emdad Hossain arrested Uzzal from Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila.
Police sent Uzzal to a court in Dhaka seeking a 10-day remand.
Read: College teacher ‘beaten by students with cricket stump’ dies in Savar
Students and teachers of the college alleged that the prime accused killed Utpal, head of the disciplinary committee of the college, in a pre-planned way.
“Utpal sir had caught the student (prime accused) with a girl inside a classroom and informed the family of the girl about the matter, which had created anger in him. That’s the reason why the student beat up Utpal sir to death on the sports day,” said a student of the college.
According to the college authorities, no CCTV footage of the crime was found as the cameras recorded nothing at that moment due to power outage.
The college authorities suspect that the boy had disconnected the power supply before killing Utpal.
Utpal Sarker, 35, son of Ajit Sarker of Engeldani village under Sirajganj’s Ullapara police station, had been serving as a teacher of Haji Yunus Ali School and College for almost ten years.
Plot to kill Hasina: Another held in city
Members of Rab have arrested a condemned militant from the city’s Uttara area on Saturday night, in connection with a 2000 attempt to assassinate then-opposition leader and current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2000.
The arrestee was identified as Sheikh Md Enamul Haque, a resident of Kotalipara in Gopalganj. He was involved in planting the 76-kg bomb at Kotalipara.
During a press briefing, Commander Khandaker Al Moin, director of legal and media wing of Rab headquarters said that Sheikh Md Enamul Haque was arrested from Uttara during an operation.
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He had been fleeing ever since the court announced the verdict. During the interrogation, Enamul admitted his involvement in the plot to kill Hasina, the director said.
On July 20, 2020 Police recovered a 76-kg bomb in front of a shop adjacent to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman Govt High School at Kotalipara of Gopalganj where Sheikh Hasina was supposed to address a rally on July 22.
Another 40-kg bomb was also recovered by an army bomb expert squad from near Kotalipara helipad on July 23, 2000.
Three separate cases were filed in this connection.
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On March 23, 2021, a Dhaka tribunal sentenced 14 people to death in a sedition case filed over the murder attempt on Sheikh Hasina at Kotalipara in Gopalganj in 2000.
Sheikh Md Enamul Haque was among the condemned convicts.
Husband under arrest after young wife beaten to death
A 22-year-old housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud in Phulbari upazila of Kurigram on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Afroza, wife of Delwar Hossain in East Fulmoti village of the upazila.Family sources said Delwar used to beat Afroza over various issues since their marriage. A few days ago, Afroza came to know that Delwar had an affair with his ex-wife.On Friday night, they had a quarrel following the matter. At one stage, Delwar beat her up severely, leaving her dead.Read: Woman killed by ‘husband’ in Sunamganj: Husband held
Later, police rushed to the spot after being informed and arrested Delwar, said Fazlur Rahman, officer-in-Charge (OC) of Fulbari Police Station.The body has been sent to a hospital morgue for an autopsy, added the OC.
RAB arrests serial rapist from Dhaka
Rab has arrested a man accused in a case over raping a schoolgirl at gunpoint in Pirojpur district.
Accused Shamim Hossain Mridha, 32, has been described by law enforcement agencies as a serial rapist.
Shamim, hailing from Pirojpur’s Bhandaria upazila, was arrested on Thursday from Dhaka's Uttara, Rab said.
According to the police, Shamim raped the schoolgirl at gunpoint on June 11. The girl's mother filed a case under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Bhandaria police station in this regard following the crime.
Students and teachers from the girl’s school also staged a human chain asking for justice for the survivor.
Members from the Detective Branch of Rab Headquarters and a team of Rab-8 arrested Shamim from the capital. The arrestee has confessed his crime, saying that he raped the girl while she was returning home after exam at her school.
The accused fled the scene after the assault and hid in Dhaka to avoid arrest, according to the case.
He also tried to rape a SSC examinee after breaking in to her house during wee hours on January 26, 2015. He also raped a madrassah-student threatening with a chopper on November 1, 2017.
Shamim also harassed another madrassah-student sexually on October 10, 2021.
He works both as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and a private car driver in Dhaka’s Babubazar and Gabtoli areas. He became a criminal at the age of 16 through consuming and trading drugs and other criminal activities, police said.
He used to hide in various places in the country including Dhaka, Kishoreganj, Barishal and Khulna after raping and harassing girls. He even used to rape girls while he was in hiding.
There are more than 10 rape and drug cases against him at various police stations across the country, including Bhandaria. He was even in jail four or five times, according to police records.
There are also a total of six arrest warrants against him in different police stations.
Rab members have said that a legal proceeding in underway against the arrestee.
53 ‘gamblers’ held in Chattogram
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detained 53 suspected gamblers from Halishahar in Chattogram port city on Saturday, Rab said on Sunday.
Tipped off, a team of Rab-7 conducted a drive at a recreation centre and co-operative cociety at Nawab Tower inside Halishohor Mart and detained them, said Nurul Absar, assistant director of Rab-7.
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The elite force also seized some materials used for gambling and Tk 3.69 lakh from their possession.
During the drive, Rab came to know that a group of people in the name of recreation centre and co-operatives society, have long been involved in Casino business and gambling.
The detainees were handed over to police.
Eight Rohingya people held in Feni
Police have arrested eight Rohingya people from a hotel in Feni’s Mohipal area.
The arrestees are—Abdul Mannan, 20, son of Nur Ahammed, Abdus Shukkur, 18, son of Hamid Hasan, Md Jamal Hossain, 22, son of Abul Kalam, Shafi Alam, 25, son of Badi Alam, Mohammad Ilias, 30, son of Abu Sayeed, Enamul Haque, 21, son of Kabir Ahmed, Nabi Hossain, 14, son of Ali Hossain, and Nur Hossain, 18, son of Fazal Ahmed.
All the arrestees are from Kutupalong and Balukhali refugee camps in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar.
Officer In-charge (Investigation) of Feni Model Police Station Abdur Rahim said that the Rohingya men secretly arrived in Feni from their respective camps in Ukhia some three to four days ago.
“Upon receiving information, a police team raided Goldstar hotel on Friday and arrested the Rohingyas. A case has been filed against the arrestees,” said the OC.
A court sent the Rohingyas to Feni district jail.
“We suspect that the Rohingyas were planning to involve in drugs trading and carry out terrorist activities while staying at Goldstar Hotel,” said Md Nizam Uddin, OC of Feni Model Police Station.
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