An activist of the local unit of Jubo League was shot dead allegedly by miscreants at Baghoil Rooppur intersection in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district on Monday. The deceased was identified as Walif Hossain Manik, 35, an active member of Jubo League and son of Yunus Ali of the upazila. He was also a former vice-president of Pakshi union unit Chhatra League. Quoting family members of the deceased, Shahidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi Police Station, said Manik was an accused of Chhatra League activist Tafsir Ahmed Mana killing case and he also served in jail in the case. Recently, Manik walked out of jail after securing bail in the case. On Monday morning, Manik went out from his home to appear before the court following the case. When he reached at Baghoil Rooppur intersection, 8-10 miscreants opened fire on him around 9 am and stabbed him indiscriminately, leaving Manik dead on the spot. Police sent the body to Pabna General Hospital morgue for autopsy. Chhatra League and Jubo League in the area had been at loggerheads over establishing supremacy for the past several days and the murder might have taken place over the issue.    

A local leader of Awami League’s youth wing Jubo League on Tuesday was arrested in connection with the murder of Md. Emdadul Haque, who was killed during an Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. A team of Badda police station of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested himf rom Uttar Badda Moinabagh area around 9pm, said Jahangir Kabir, assisant commissioner (AC-media) of the DMP.  The arrestee is Md. Rakibul Islam, also known as Shisir, a local Jubo leader of the Badda area. Read: Former MP Manik arrested over attack on anti-discrimination student movement The case was filed at Badda police station on September 9 bringing allegation that Emdadul was shot dead outside the AMZ Hospital during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on July 20. Fellows of the then ruling Awami League opened fire and hurled explosives indiscriminately at the protesters, leaving Emdadul killed on the spot. Following the investigation, which included analysis of intelligence information and nearby CCTV footage, Rakibul Islam was identified and arrested. Read more: 4 AL leaders arrested in Dhaka over killing of student during mass uprising Legal proceedings against the arrested individual are currently underway at the Badda police station.

A union-level leader of Awami League’s (AL) youth wing Jubo League (JL) was beaten to death over a trivial matter in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj on Thursday afternoon, said police. The deceased Nazul Islam Bhuiyan, 40, was an assistant secretary of Noagaon union unit of the JL under the upazila and also son of late Shafed Ali Bhuiyan. He had a rod and steel business at local Dhandi Bazar. 11 unregistered hospitals ordered to shut down in Narayanganj The victim’s wife Asma Aktar said Nazrul got on an autorickshaw to go to Bhulta Gauchia market in Rupganj from Majerchar Bus Stand in the Sonargaon upazila in the afternoon. An altercation broke out between her husband and autorickshaw driver Jakir Hossain and lineman Daiyan Miah when he got off the vehicle despite waiting for a long time as the autorickhaw was not leaving the stand without fulfilling it with passengers, she said. 6 of a family burned in Narayanganj house fire At one stage of the altercation, the lineman beat up Nazurl with his stick while driver Jakir accompanied by other drivers punched and kicked him, leaving him injured critically, the wife alleged. He was rushed to Araihazar Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared him dead upon arrival, said Mujibur Rahman, sub-inspector of Taltala police outpost under Sonargaon police station, adding that the trivial matter led to the killing. The spot where the incident happened is between Sonargaona and Araihazar police stations, he said. Gas crisis grips Narayanganj; residents being forced to adapt to alternative options for cooking Araihazar police station’s Officer-in-Charge Ahsan Ullah said being informed they recovered the body from the upazila health complex. The body bore marks of injuries, the police officer added.

A Jubo League activist was  hacked to death allegedly by activists of rival group at Atani Bazar in Mymensingh's Muktagachha upazila headquarters on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Asaduzzaman Asad, son of Shamsul Haque of Tarati Purbapara village in the upazila and nephew of late Awami League leader Abdul Hamid Nayeb.  Read: US-based Tanzilur's mother freed on bail after 8 days Kazi Alamgir Hossain, cousin of the deceased, said that he was an activist of a Jubo League faction led by Chairman Abdul Hai Akand. According to police and locals, Asad, Nahid and some others were sitting together and having tea at a tea shop in the town's Atani Bazar. Suddenly, a group of 15-20 youths surrounded them from all sides with axes, rods, hockey sticks and country-made weapons. They beat up Asad on both legs and hands and hacked him, leaving him seriously injured. Read: Disgruntled JCD leaders kept Ctg south BNP office locked for 3 days Later, locals rescued him and admitted him to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital where he died at 1 am on Tuesday while undergoing treatment there. Nahid was also admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Asad’s cousin Kazi Alamgir said that Asad was beaten by some unknown miscreants two months ago and a case was filed in this regard. He was killed in a planned manner by the accused in that case over previous enmity with rival group. Read: Youth’s body recovered from Karnaphuli River  Muktagachha police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Abdul Majid confirmed the incident and said no written complaint has been received yet. The body has been sent for autopsy, said the OCadding that efforts are on to arrest the suspects.

BNP’s three associate bodies on Wednesday rescheduled their planned “Youth Rally” in six districts to avoid chaos as the ruling party’s youth wing Jubo League announced a counter programme. Jubo Dal President Sultan Salahuddin Tuku came up with the announcement at a press conference arranged by Chhatra Dal, Jubo Dal, and Swechchasebak Dal at the BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office. He said they announced on June 2 to arrange six youth rallies—on June 11 in Chattogram, in Bogura on June 17, in Khulna on July 7, in Barishal on July 15, in Sylhet on July 22 and in Dhaka on July 29—peacefully to drum up the young generation’s support for their 10-point demand, including holding the next polls under a caretaker government. “But we’ve got shocked as Awami Jubo League called a counter programme two days later. We think the announcement of the counter programmes on the same date and at the same place by Jubo League is a provocation and an evil attempt to create chaos,” the Jubo Dal president said. Also read: BNP, like-minded parties set to observe sit-in in all cities, districts on Saturday Claiming that Jubo Dal always believes in liberal and democratic politics he said, they have decided to reschedule their progamme to make it a success peacefully avoiding any confrontation. As per the fresh schedules, Tuku said they will now hold the youth rally in Chattogram on June 14, in Bogura on June 19, in Barishal on June 24, in Sylhet on July 9, in Khulna on July 17 and in Dhaka on July 22. He alleged that Awami League and its associate bodies have been doing politics resorting to violence and anarchy since their inception. “Indulging in enforced disappearances, murders, assaults, lawsuits to suppress the voice of the oppositions are their natural habits.” Tuku said the Jubo League came up with the counter programme two days after the announcement of their peaceful youth rally only to create anarchy in the country as the current government has destroyed all political norms and culture. Also read; BNP fears severe economic crisis soon due to dollar crunch “They could have given their programme on different days. We’re on a movement for democracy, and we believe in peaceful politics. That is why we're rescheduling our programme,” he observed. Earlier on June 2, Tuku said they would arrange the youth rally in six districts with a slogan “Let the young generation vote, fight for votes” to unite the youth on the streets to restore democracy and the voting rights of the people.

Police arrested three more people in connection with the murder of a Jubo League leader in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila. The arrestees are Md. Robi of Jiarkandi area of Titas upazila of Comilla district, Md. Shahparan of the same area and Sumon Hossain of Lalpur area. Police conducted a drive in Narayanganj's Madanpur area on Sunday night and arrested them, Cumilla District Superintendent of Police Abdul Mannan said in a press conference on Monday. The law enforcers have arrested six people so far in connection with the murder of Hubo leader Jamal Hussain. Also Read: Jubo League leader shot to death in Cumilla Earlier, RAB arrested Ismail Hossain, 36, Shahinul Islam Sohel Sikder, 46 and Shah Alam, 38 from Chattogram and Dhaka on Saturday night. They are all named as accused in the case filed over the murder. Ismail was arrested from Agrabad in Chattogram and the other two were from Rayerbagh and Kalshi in Dhaka, Lieutenant Colonel Tanveer Mohammad Pasha, the company commander of RAB-11 CPC-1, said during a press conference on Sunday. The arrested accused said that there was a dispute between them and the slain Jubo League leader for many days, he added. Jamal Hossain, 38, the joint convener of Titas Upazila Jubo League and a businessman of Gauripur market, was shot dead at Gouripur Bazar in Daudkandi of Cumilla on Sunday (30 April). Later, a case was filed at Daudkandi police station following a complaint lodged by the deceased's wife Popi Akter on Tuesday.  

A case has been filed against 33 people including local Awami League leader Abul Kashem Zihadi in connection with the murders of former Jubo League leader Noman and former Chhatra League leader Rakib. Mahfuzur Rahman, local UP chairman and elder brother of one of the deceased, filed the case against 18 identified and 14-15 unidentified people with Chandraganj Police Station around 1 am on Thursday. Abul Kashem Zihadi, organizing secretary of Chandraganj upazila unit of Awami League was among the accused. No one has been arrested in this connection but a drive is on to arrest the accused. Also read: 2 former Juba and Chhatra League leaders shot dead in Laxmipur On April 25, Abdullah Al Noman, 35, former general secretary of district unit of Jubo League and Rakib Imam, 28, former organising secretary of the district unit of Chhatra League were shot to death allegedly in an attack by their rivals over establishing supremacy in Sadar upazila of Laxmipur.  

The Election Commission has filed a case against a Jubo League leader on charge of snatching an Electronic Voting Machine’s ballot unit panel from a polling centre during the Boalkhali Upazila Parishad election in Chattogram. Presiding officer of the centre, Sajal Das, filed the case with Boalkhali Police Station last night against Nirmalendu Dey Sumon, the joint general secretary of Sreepur-Kharandwip Union Jubo League and son of late Gaurang Dey of ward-9. Confirming the case, Boalkhali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Abdur Razzaque said, an investigation is underway regarding the matter. Also Read: Pabna rickshaw-puller murder: Jubo League activist put on 3-day remand Earlier yesterday, the Boalkhali Upazila Parishad by-election was held. However, there was no voter turnout throughout the day. Almost all the centres were empty. In the meantime, around noon, Sumon entered room-5 of Jaistyapura Ramni Mohan High School centre in Sreepur-Kharandwip union and took away the EVM ballot unit panel from the polling room. Assistant Presiding Officer Harunur Rashid protested, but the Jubo League leader did not pay heed to it. Later, Union Awami League President Ratan Chowdhury recovered the EVM ballot unit panel and returned it to the centre. Police detained Ratan for questioning in this connection and later released him.    

Enraged at the recent communal attack in Panchagarh, activists of Bangladesh Jubo League yesterday held a series of peace rallies in different districts condemning the bigotry. At a time when PM Sheikh Hasina is tirelessly working to take the country forward despite global headwinds, communal forces are out to create tension and chaos, Jubo League leaders at the rallies said. With a pledge to uphold the spirit of communal harmony, the protesters also vowed to stand up against any attempt to unleash violence on minorities. Read more: Panchagarh clash leaves 2 killed and at least 50 hurt Recently, violence over an Ahmadiyya religious event left 2 people dead and dozens injured. The angry mob also looted around 20 houses belonging to the Ahmadiyya community located in Ahmednagar. Since the violence, Basherkella – known as a “Jamaat mouthpiece” for staunchly supporting war criminals – from its verified Twitter account made posts with “police brutality” and “boycott Qadiani (Ahmadiyya)” in the hashtags. Members of the community called it a “hate campaign” against Ahmadiyyas. Read more: Clash over Ahmadiyya event: 3 more cases filed with 8 more arrests Meanwhile, a BNP leader was among those arrested for allegedly spreading rumours about the Ahmadiyya community. Fazle Rabbi, joint convener of Panchagarh municipality unit of BNP and also a leader of municipality unit of Jubo Dal and son of Solaiman Ali of Rajnagar area, was among the arrestees. Read more: Miscreants use gunpowder, petrol during the attack on Ahmadiya: Police  

A leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s youth wing Jubo Dal was shot and stabbed allegedly by a leader of Jubo League, the ruling party's youth wing,  over control of Tongibari upazila on Tuesday. Mollahkandi Union unit Jubo Dal President Zia Sarkar, 45, was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) from Munshiganj General Hospital due to his critical condition. The victim’s elder brother Babul Sarkar said Jubo League leader Shipon Patowary, younger brother of the union parishad chairman and himself a Jubo League leader Ripon Patowary, picked up Zia in a microbus when he was on his way to pick up his daughter from a school nearby Beshnal Culvert. Read more: JCD leader shot dead in clash with cops over arrest of a BNP leader in Brahmanbaria Identifying themselves as members of Detective Branch, the Jubo League men took Zia to the Amghata area near the house of Chairman Ripon and shot him in his legs and stabbed him, he said, adding that later they left him in a critical condition there. Hearing screams, locals rushed to the spot and took him to the General Hospital. Dr Shibal Basak, a physician at the hospital, said they found two bullets in the legs and marks of injuries of lethal weapons were also spotted on his body. Bullet-hit Zia, a brick and sand businessman by profession, was referred to DMCH for better treatment, the physician said. Tarekuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station, said drives are on to nab the people involved with the incident immediately. Sadar Circle Additional Superintendent of Police Khandaker Khairul Islam said they primarily came to know that some people identifying themselves as DB picked up Zia and beat him.   Read more: ‘Terrorist’ killed in Chapainawabganj ‘gunfight’ Locals said there had been a longstanding dispute between Ripon and former union parishad chairman Mohsina Haque Kolpona over controlling the area. Babul said his brother was attacked by the followers of Ripon as he is a supporter of Kolpona.