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SI of PBI held with Yaba
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a sub-inspector of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) along with 11,560 Yaba pills from Bhellapara in Karnaphuli area of Chattogram.
The detainee was identified as Mohammad Masud Rana, who was serving as sub-inspector of Cox’s Bazar PBI.
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During a regular check at Bhellapara check-post, the elite force intercepted a car on Sunday and detained Masud along with 11,560 pieces of Yaba tablets, said Dulal Mahmud, officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station.
Later, he was handed over to Karnaphuli Police Station early Monday.
A case was filed against him under Narcotics Control Act.
Mitu murder case: No confessional statement from Babul after remand
Chattogram's former police superintendent Babul Akter didn’t give any confessional statement at court on Monday after spending 5 days in police remand as accused in his wife, Mitu’s murder case.
Babul was produced before Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Sarwar Zahan’s court by the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) today.
The court sent Babul Akter to jail around 3pm as he didn’t give any confessional statement under section 164.
Assistant commissioner (prosecution) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, Kazi Shahabuddin confirmed the matter to media and said it’s up to PBI now, if they want to appeal for remand again for interrogating the former SP.
Also read: Ex-SP Babul placed on 5-day remand
On May 12, Babul was taken under 5-day remand by PBI for interrogation after being arrested in a 5-year old case filed over his wife’s murder case by his father-in-law.
Former plaintiff now the prime accused of the murder case Babul Akter has mostly ignored any question regarding the motive of the murder during the interrogation, said the PBI officials.
He only said, “You know everything, what should I tell?” said the sources involved in investigation.
On June 5, 2016, unidentified assailants gunned down Babul's wife Mitu at the port city's GEC intersection while she was going to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for a bus of Chittagong Cantonment Public School and College.
Soon after the crime, Babul had filed a murder case with Panchlaish Police Station against three unidentified men.
On June 24, 2016 night, he was interrogated for 15 hours at intelligence office in Dhaka and on September 6, he willfully resigned from the police service.
On May 13, this year, court placed Saidul Islam Shikder Shaku, seventh accused of the murder case on a 4-day remand.
Also read: Mitu murder case: Former Chattogram SP Babul Akter detained
Eight people including Babul were accused in the case filed by Mitu's father, Mosharraf Hossain. The other accused are Kamrul Islam Shikder alias Musa, Ehteshamul Haque Bhola, Motaleb Mia alias Wasim, Anwar Hossain, Khairul Islam alias Kalu, and Shahjahan Mia.
PBI submits probe report against Babunagari, 42 others
Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) on Monday submitted an investigation report against Hefazat-e-Islam Ameer Junaid Babunagari and 42 others in a case filed over the alleged murder of the group’s former chief Shah Ahmad Shafi.PBI Chattogram Police Superintendent Nazmul Hossain said the report was submitted to the Chattogram Judicial Magistrate Court in the afternoon.
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Also read: Ahmad Shafi’s death: PBI investigators visit Hathazari MadrasaShafi, the rector of Hathazari Madrasa and chief of Hefazat, breathed his last at a hospital in the capital on September 18 last year at the age of 104.On December 17, a case was filed against 36 people including Hefazat Joint Secretary General Mamunul Haque over the death of Shafi.Md Mainuddin, the brother-in-law of Shafi, filed the case with Chattogram Judicial Magistrate Court-3, calling his death “a planned murder”.The court ordered PBI to file an investigation report within a month.
Will marriage and divorce face 'Nasir Law' for digital registration?
The High Court (HC) on Tuesday issued a rule seeking explanation as to why marriages and divorces should not be registered digitally and available online.
The HC also asked why necessary steps, including establishment of a centralised website, a sort pf electronic register,won’t be taken in this regard.
The bench of Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Mia and Justice Md Kamrul Hossain Molla issued the rule after hearing a writ petition filed in the form of public interest litigation.
Ex-husband of Tamima Sultana, who recently wed cricketer Nasir Hossain, and three others including an organization filed the writ petition on March 4.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan stood for the writ petitioner while Deputy Attorney General Nowroz Md Rasel Chowdhury represented the state.
Also read: PBI asked to probe case against cricketer Nasir, his wife
The writ said incidents of frequent fraudulence occurred as matrimony and divorce are not registered digitally, increasing number of marriage-related offences.
Digitalization is essential to avoid the marriage-related crimes, it said.
Meanwhile, Tamima Sultana’s former husband filed the petition as Tamima allegedly got married to cricketer Nasir without divorcing her husband Rakib Hasan.
On February 24, a Dhaka court directed the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate a case filed against Nasir and his wife.
According to the case statement, Tamima got married to Rakib Hasan on February 26, 2011 and they have an eight year old daughter.
Tamima, a cabin crew of Saudia Airlines, had been staying in Saudi Arabia due to Covid-19 situation since March, 2020.
During this time, she contacted her family through mobile phone and social media.
Tamima got married with the cricketer on February 14 while photographs of their marriage went viral on social media which drew the attention of Rakib Hasan. He then proceeded to reveal Tamima never divorced him, which put a cloud over the legal status of her union with Nasir.
For Tamima's, or anyone else's for that matter, second marriage to be legal, the first has to be legally annulled. Tamima insists she divorced Rakib, and produced a document before the media in this connection.
But the concerned municipal office, where the divore document is also supposed to be sent, has denied receiving a copy.
Court asks PBI to investigate case over cartoonist Kishore’s torture in custody
A Dhaka court on Sunday accepted a case filed by cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore over alleged torture on him in custody after his arrest under the Digital Security Act (DSA).
Sedition case against Babunagari: PBI asked to submit report on March 3
A Dhaka court on Wednesday asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to submit a report on February 3, after investing a sedition case filed against Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh chief Junaid Babunagari over his anti-sculpture comments.
Chargesheet against 24 in BCL youth leader murder case
Police on Tuesday filed before a court a chargesheet against 24 people for their alleged involvement in the murder of Bangladesh Chhatra League’s (BCL) Chattogram city unit leader Sudipta Biswas.
Ahmad Shafi’s death: PBI investigators visit Hathazari Madrasa
Members of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) visited the Hathazari Madrasa on Tuesday morning as part of their probe into the alleged killing of Hefazat-e-Islam founder Shah Ahmad Shafi.
Court asks PBI to investigate case against Khokon, 6 others
A Dhaka court on Wednesday asked the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the case against seven people including the former Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon for embezzling Tk 34 crore..
Chattogram schoolgirl Tasfia killed herself, confirms PBI
Ninth-grader Tasfia Amin, who was found dead at Chattogram’s Patenga sea beach in 2018, killed herself.