Law-&-Order
5 JMB men jailed for bomb attack on police in Bagerhat
A court in Bagerhat on Wednesday sentenced five members of the banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to different jail terms in a case filed over a bomb attack on police in Bagerhat in 2016.
Bagerhat Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Court Judge Dr Md. Atiqus Samad handed down the verdict on Wednesday.
The convicts are Md. Jahirul Islam, son of Ashraful Ali Farazi of Raghunathpur village in Nazirpur upazila of Pirojpur, Maksudur Rahman alias Tota, Son of Jumman Ali Sardar of Garerkanda village in Satkhira district, Morshed Alam, son of Gias Uddin of Kashimpur village of the same district, Saiful Islam, son of Abdul Karim of Itagachha village of the same district, Tariqul Islam alias Tarek, son of Sohrab Hossain of Natoikhali village in Bagerhat district.
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The court also fined them Tk 10,000 each, in default, to suffer three months more imprisonment, Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Advocate Md. Shahiduzzaman said.
Of them, four accused were sentenced to six years and one accused to five years in prison, he added.
According to the case statement, on November 03, 2016, Bagerhat Model Police came to know that six to seven JMB members were staying in Gobardia area under the Daratana Bridge of Bagerhat Sadar and preparing to carry out subversive activities.
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When police reached there, JMB members hurled bombs and police opened fire in self-defence. Later, police arrested five JMB members from the spot.
On November 21, 2017, police submitted a charge sheet accusing five JMB members and charges were framed against the accused on May 2, 2019.
Graft case: HC upholds 14 years’ jail term of ex-DIG Mizan
The High Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court verdict that sentenced sacked Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Mizanur Rahman to 14 years' imprisonment in a case filed for amassing illegal wealth.
The HC bench of Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Mollah passed the order.Advocate Khurshid Alam Khan stood for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
On June 21 last year, a Dhaka court sentenced suspended Mizanur Rahman to 14 years' imprisonment in the case. Besides, Mizan's wife, brother and nephew were sentenced to seven years' imprisonment each in the case.
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Later, the ex-DIG filed an appeal with the High Court against the verdict.
On June 24,2019 ACC director Monjur Morshed filed the case against DIG Mizan, his wife Sohelia Anar Ratna, nephew sub-inspector Mahmudul Hasan and younger brother Mahbubur Rahman.
According to the case statement, the ACC found that Mizan concealed information of wealth worth Tk 3.28 crore in his wealth statement.
After investigation, the ACC submitted a charge sheet against them on January 30, 2020.
The former DIG, who was in jail in a corruption case, was dismissed from service on November 3, 2022.
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On October 20 of the same year, the court framed charges against Mizan and three others in the case.
Besides, Mizan was sentenced to three years in jail on February 23, 2022 for bribing an ACC official with Tk 40 lakh.
‘Sexual harassment’: Viqarunnisa teacher on 2-day remand
A Dhaka court has placed Murad Hossain Sarkar, a mathematics teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College’s Azimpur campus in Dhaka on a two-day remand in a case filed over sexual harassment of a female student.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-Al-Farabi granted the remand after Lalbagh Police Station Sub-Inspector Faiyaz Hossain produced the accused before the court on Tuesday and pleaded for a seven-day remand.
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Earlier, defence lawyer Shafiqul Islam Dipu and some others filed a bail petition seeking cancellation of the remand petition.
Murad was arrested from his Kalabagan residence in the capital around 12 am on Monday. The decision to suspend him was taken at an emergency meeting of the governing body of Viqarunnisa School on Monday night.
Earlier, On February 7, students submitted complaints to the principal accusing the teacher of sexual harassment.
Last Saturday, the school authority withdrew the senior teacher and subsequently attached him to the principal’s office in the face of demonstration by a section of students and their guardians.
Protesting the withdrawal decision the following day, the students and their guardians started a protest on the school campus, demanding an exemplary punishment of the accused.
Viqarunnisa’s Azimpur campus math teacher arrested over ‘sexual harassment’
A mathematics teacher of Viqarunnisa Noon School & College’s Azimpur campus in Dhaka was arrested today, shortly after he had been suspended for alleged sexual harassment.
Binoy Kumar, duty officer of Lalbagh police station, said a police team arrested Mohammad Murad Hossain Sarkar from his Kalabagan residence early Tuesday.
On Monday evening, the mother of a student lodged a case against the morning shift teacher, alleging him of sexually harassing students at his coaching centre.
The educational institution’s Azimpur branch Acting Principal Keka Roy Chowdhury said they decided to suspend the teacher after holding a meeting of the governing body as the allegations brought against him were found to be primarily true.
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Moreover, a decision was made to form a three member committee from the divisional commissioner’s office to investigate the incident, she said.
On February 7, students submitted complaints to the principal accusing the teacher of sexual harassment.
Last Saturday, the school authority withdrew the senior teacher and subsequently attached him to the principal’s office in the face of demonstration by a section of students and their guardians.
Protesting the withdrawal decision the following day, the students and their guardians started a protest on the school campus, demanding an exemplary punishment of the accused.
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The guardians also held a press conference at the National Press Club the same day, demanding that the accused teacher be sacked.
On the other hand, rejecting the allegations, another section of students and their guardians announced to hold a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity in favour of the senior teacher this morning.
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DB nabs 23 members of alleged gang that made fake documents
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested 23 members of an alleged gang that illegally made birth certificates, fake national identity cards and passports for Rohingyas and notorious criminals in the country.
Three Rohingyas, two members of Ansar Force and brokers are included among the 23 arrestees.
Seventeen passports, 13 fake NIDs, five computers, three printers, 24 mobile phones and hundreds of documents related to the making of passports were recovered from their possessions.
Divided into three parts, the arrestees used to get the fake birth certificates of criminals and Rohingya through the computer operators of various Union Parishad chairmen of Rajshahi, Rangpur, Narayanganj, Mymensingh, Shariatpur and Gopalganj. Later, he would make passports with this information to the Rohingyas.
The DB police arrested three Rohingya women and men, ten Bangladeshis with passports and computers conducting raids at Agargaon, Mohammadpur, Jatrabari, Badda in the capital on February 23.
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Later, based on their information, the detectives carried out drives in different areas of Cox's Bazar, Tangail and Dhaka on February 25. Two Ansar members, and eight middle men of the Rohingya and Bangladeshi brokers syndicate gang, were arrested during the drives.
The arrested Rohingyas were identified as Umme Chhalima Chhamira, Morijan and Md Rashidul. Middle men of Rohingya were known as Ayub Ali and Md. Mostakim. Ansar members were identified as Md. Jamsedul Islam and Md. Raihan. Bengali brokers were Raju Sheikh, Shaon Hossain alias Niloy, Feroz Hossain, Tushar Mia. The broker members of Agargaon, Mohammadpur and Uttara areas are Shahjahan Sheikh, Shariful Alam, Zobair Molla, Shimul Sheikh, Ahmed Hossain, Masud Alam, Abdul Alim, Masud Rana, Fazle Rabbi Shawon, Rajab Kumar Das Dipto, Al-Amin and Md Sohag.
Briefing reporters at DMP media centre on Monday, Additional Commissioner (DB) of the DMP Mohammad Haroon Or-Rashid dislosed it. DB Lalbagh Division DC (promoted to the post of Additional DIG) Moshiur Rahman was also present.
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During the briefing, the DB chief said that the syndicate members used to make birth certificates, NID cards and passports for Rohingya children, women and men in exchange of thousands of taka. The cycle has been doing this in three parts. A group of them brought Rohingyas from Cox's Bazar, Bandarban, Khagrachari to Dhaka. Another group makes birth certificate, NID cards for them. Finally, the other group arranges for money deposit, biometrics and photo taking through Ansar members in various regional passport offices including Dhaka.
He said, they usually charge Tk 5,000 to 12,000 for the birth certificate within six hours. Primarily they admitted that they used to charge 25 thousand taka to get NID within three days and 1 lakh 20 thousand taka to make passport.
The relevant soft documents, delivery slips of hundreds of passports were found in the mobile phones of the arrested brokers. Out of which 143 passports were made for Rohingyas in the last three months. The gang members also admitted to issuing passports to Rohingyas, Bangladeshi criminals under different names and addresses since 2019.
The top officer of the DMP's DB said that the arrested people used the use addresses of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Narayanganj, Mymensingh, Rangpur, Shariatpur, Gopalganj and Barisal districts to create birth certificates and NIDs and then make passports based on those documents.
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Bangladesh has Rohingya database , digital birth certificate datas and smart NID data bank where various information including biometrics, images are stored. However, without any verification of this information, anyone can submit biometrics to deposit money through brokers and take photos for passports at the passport office on the basis of required documents. But it is possible to identify Bangladeshi nationals and Rohingyas immediately by scrutinising Rohingya data, digital birth certificate data and smart NID data before making passports.
2 arrested on fraud charge over DU entry test question paper leak
Law enforcers have arrested two people on charge of cheating admission seekers regarding question paper leak of entry test of Dhaka University (DU).
A web-based crime investigation team of Detective Branch (DB)-Cyber & Special Crime unit (north) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested them after conducting drives in Dhaka, Joypurhat and Bogura districts.
The arrestees are Annafiul Nafiz Iqbal, 23, son of Sabuj Ahmed of Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila, and Md Asif Talukdar.
Of them, Annafiul is a second year student of Mohipur Hajji Mohsin Government College in Joypurhat.
DMP’s additional commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun-Or-Rashid revealed this information at a press conference at his office in the capital’s Mintoo Road on Sunday.
Posing as security in-charge of Education Ministry and opening a fake Facebook account after Cyber Teens Foundation founder Md Sadat Rahman, arrestee Asif uploaded posts on the Facebook asking admission seekers to contact him through Telegram to have question paper of the Friday’s entry test of DU, he said.
Similarly, the college student Annafiul also posted on the Facebook asking the admission aspirants to pay Tk 20, 000 in advance to avail the question paper of ‘B’ (Arts, Law and Social Science faculties) unit, he said, adding that the arrestee also asked the question paper seekers to pay rest Tk 30, 000 after the examination.
Arrestee Annafiul embezzled Tk 10 lakh from the admission seekers through cheating the admission seekers, the DB officer said.
The DU authorities assured the admission candidates that the question papers were not leaked, saying it as ‘rumour’.
Annafiul and Asif were arrested after the DU authorities and the Cyber Teens Foundation founder filed two separate cases against them, the DB chief added.
Double life sentence for man who abducted and raped teenager
A Natore court on Sunday sentenced a youth to two life terms in prison for abducting and raping a schoolgirl in Naldanga upazila of Natore.
The convict is Hafizul Islam.
Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal Judge Muhammad Abdur Rahim passed the verdict.
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The court also fined the convict Tk 40,000 and ordered him to pay the same to the victim; he will have to serve 60 years in prison.
Public Prosecutor Sirajul Islam said Hafiz and his accomplices abducted and raped a seventh-grader at Bangalkholshi High School in Naldanga upazila on September 13, 2019.
Later, after the victim's father, Asmat Mandal, filed a case, police rescued the victim from Jashore and arrested him.
Home Minister expresses hope for swift conclusion of BDR Carnage Case
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal conveyed his anticipation for an imminent final verdict in the BDR carnage case while addressing the media after paying his respects to the martyrs at Dhaka’s Banani graveyard on Sunday morning.
He emphasised the government's expectation for the judicial process to conclude shortly, stating, "We are hopeful that the final judgment will be delivered in the coming days. The completion of the trial hinges entirely on the judicial proceedings, and I can assure there has been no laxity in the trial process."
Acknowledging the complexity of the case, he noted, "Given the involvement of numerous individuals, navigating through these investigations was a colossal endeavour."
Chiefs of the three armed services, the additional secretary of the Public Security Department, and family members of those who lost their lives in the Pilkhana tragedy were at the graveyard at the time.
Youth lynched on suspicion of theft in Ctg’s Hathazari
A 22-year-old youth was killed in a lynch-mob attack on suspicion of being a thief in Hathazari municipality of Chatogram early Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Md Rahat, son of Sharafat Ullah Tipu of Alipur village under ward No-4 of the municipality.
Locals said they saw the youth entering a house near Nur Masjid of the municipality in the early morning.
They caught him and gave a good thrashing suspecting him to be a thief, leaving the youth critically injured.
He rushed to Upazila health complex where physicians declared him dead upon arrival, said Upazila Health and Family Planning Officer Dr Rashim Chakma.
Hathazari police station’s Sub Inspector Md Hasan said they sent the body to Chittagong Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
RAB arrests 37 teen gang members in Dhaka
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 37 members of “teen gangs”, although their age range is between 15-45, along with drugs, and sharp weapons from different areas of Dhaka and its surrounding areas on Thursday.
Tipped off, a team of RAB-1 conducted drives in the capital’s Mohakhali, Banani, Airport, Tongi and Gazipur areas and arrested them, Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Mostaq Ahmad, commanding officer of RAB-1 said in a press conference.
The arrestees are Russell,17, Arafat,17, Robin,15, Al-Amin,24, Islam,29, Jewel,22, Rabiul,16, Murad,17, Mahabub,19, Saad,22, Rohan,22, Mona,28, Hriday,20, Obayed,18, Md Zisan,19, Md Akash,30, Md Emon,20, Md Ramzan,21, Md Sajib 18, Md Shakib,22, Md Rajib,19, Md Amir Hossain,36, Shahjahan Saju alias Russell,45, Md Zilad Miah,20, Md Hriday,19, A Raihan,15, Md Babu Miah,22, Md Shahjahan,21, Md Jalal Miah,28, Lamim Miah,15, Md Rakib,16, Md Hira Miah,17, Imrul Hasan,17, Md Sakin Sarkar Rabbi,18, Md Sujan Miah,19, Khairul,19 and Rahat,19.
They identified themselves as members of different groups including Kishor Gang-007 Group, Baba Group, Jaura Group, D Company and Jahangir Group.
During the drives, RAB seized 500 grams of Ganja, 24 mobiles, one blade, one axe, one power bank, five rods, 16 knives, three iron chains, one hammer, one motorcycle and cash Taka 24,250 from their possession, added the officer.
The process is underway to take legal action against them, said the RAB official.