Mob beating
Youth stabbed on eve of wedding in Shariatpur: Accused injured in mob beating
An 18-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a youth in Shariatpur sadar upazila on Saturday, a day before her wedding and the accused was injured in a mob beating.
The deceased was identified as Kakoli, 18, a student of class 11 in Shariatpur Sadar Alia Madrasa, and daughter of Nuruzzaman Madbor of Char Palong village in the upazila.
She succumbed to her injuries around 3 am Sunday at a private hospital in the capital’s Dhanmondi area, said the family.
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Meanwhile accused Zahidul Islam, 18, former student of the same Madrasah of Kakoli and son of Mujibur Rahman of Kashabhog union was admitted to Dhaka Medical Hospital on Saturday night after he got brutally beaten by the locals after the incident.
Kakoli was talking to her would be husband on phone in her house when Zahidul entered the house through a window and took her behind the house.
There he stabbed her neck with a knife and hearing her cry Kakoli’s family members nabbed Zahidul. Locals locked him up in a room after beating.
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Aktar Hossain, officer-in-Charge of Palong police station said the body was handed over to the family after an autopsy.
He said a murder case will be filed under section 302 of penal code following the complaint lodged by victim’s brother Faruk Hossain on Saturday night.
Mob beats 2 women suspected of gold chain snatching, one dies: Police
A mob lynched a woman and injured another on suspicion that they were snatchers, police said on Monday.
The mob attack on the women occurred on Sunday at Boro Balmantachar in Nawabganj upazila in Dhaka, according to police.
The dead had been identified as Runa Akter, 45, wife of Purok Mia of Nasirbag in Brahmanbaria district.
The second woman identified as Popy, 20 was undergoing treatment at the upazila health complex.
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The two women snatched a gold chain from Zahura Begum, a resident of Boro Balmantarchar village, as she was waiting in a queue for taking Covid jabs at a local centre on Sunday afternoon, said Sirajul Islam Sheikh, officer-in-charge of Nawabganj Police Station,
Zahura’s husband Hazrat Ali caught the two women with the help of local people.
The two females were taken to the house of Zuhra, where they were mercilessly beaten, also joined by local people.
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Runa was declared dead by doctors after the badly mauled women were taken to a local hospital. Her body was sent to Mitford hospital on Monday for post-mortem.
Police arrested Zuhra while her husband Hazrat Ali escaped.
The OC said legal action will be taken against those involved in the mob-beating.
‘Thief’ lynched in Faridpur
A suspected thief was killed in a lynch mob-attack at Pashra village in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.
The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
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Locals said a gang in the area used to loot valuables from people’s houses after making them unconscious by providing toxic elements in food.
Dilip Biswas, a resident in the area, said around 1:30 am a sound of knocking the door was heard and the inmates of the house raised a hue and cry suspecting something unusual .
Later, local people managed to catch one person aged about 30 and gave him a good thrashing, leaving him injured.
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On information, police rushed to the spot and took him to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead, said Sumon Ranjan Sarkar, assistant superintendent of Faridpur Police.
Sitakunda mob beats ‘robber’ to death
A suspected robber died from a mob beating in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on early Monday.
Lalmonirhat mob killing: DIG, DC pay spot visit
Rangpur divisional commissioner and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) of Rangpur Range visited the spot where a rabid and belligerent mob beat a man to death and burned his body in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila accusing him of ‘disrespecting the Quran’.
HC issues 5 directives to prevent rumour-led mob beating
The High Court on Sunday issued five directives to prevent repetition of rumours being spread leading to mob beatings, that claimed several lives last year including that of Taslima Begum Renu.
‘Robber’ lynched in Bagerhat
A suspected robber was killed in a mob beating at Baruikhali village in Kochua upazila early Monday.
3 'cattle thieves' lynched in Jashore
Three suspected cattle thieves were beaten to death by a mob at Prembagh village of Abhoynagar upazila early Monday.