BNP in the early hours on Friday claimed that plainclothes police picked up its Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Standing Committee member Mirza Abbas from their homes in separate raids in the capital city. BNP’s Media Cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan said that a team of Detective Branch (DB) of Police went to Fakhrul’s Uttara house at the dead of night and picked him up around 3:00 am. He said another team of the DB police raided the house of Abbas at the same time and picked him up from his Shahjahanpur home in Dhaka. Meanwhile, BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain condemned the detention of the two top party leaders and said it has once again exposed the government’s political vengeance. Talking to UNB, he said their party’s decision about Saturday’s rally will be announced after a virtual meeting of the standing committee that was supposed to begin at 11:30am. Talking to reporters on Friday morning, Fakhrul’s wife Rahat Ara Begum said four DB police members came upstairs of their house around 3am while som others were staying downstairs. “I asked them the reason behind their arrival here at the dead of night. They said they came here to take him (Fakhrul) away as per the directives of the higher authorities,” she said. Rahat Ara said as she asked them whether they had any Al warrant for his arrest, the law enforcers said he was accused in two or three fresh cases that were filed yesterday. She said Fakhrul’s physical condition was not good and he took some medicines with him while he was picked up by the DB police. Read more: BNP yet to decide venue for Dec 10 rally “I was asleep when Abbas woke me up and said they (DB members) were going to take me with them and I couldn’t believe it at first,” said Mirza Abbas’s wife Afroza Abbas They said they will return him after discussion ld with him, she said. Afroza, also the president of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, said Abbs returned home late night along with some BNP leaders after visiting two possible venues for their party’s Saturday’s rally. As the BNP leaders, including Barkatullah Bulu, AZM Zahid Hossain and others who had a meeting with the DMP commissioner at night left Abbas’ house around 3am, Afroza said the DB members came to pick up her husband. Read more: Nayapaltan clash: 445 BNP activists including Rizvi, Annie sent to jail, 2 get bail Earlier on Thursday night, a BNP delegation had a six-hour meeting with the DMP commissioner where they talked about holding the rally on Saturday (December 10) either at Kamalapur Stadium or Mirpur Bangla College ground. Later, Abbas with some BNP leaders visited the two venues. At that meeting, police authorities assured of reopening BNP office at Nayapaltan. On Wednesday, a Swechchasebak Dal leader was killed and around 50 others were injured in a clash between police and the BNP activists in front of the party’s Nayapaltan central office ahead of its December 10 rally. Following the clash, police raided the BNP office and arrested around 300 party leaders and activists from there. While an understanding was reached apparently between the government and the BNP over the rally following the BNP leaders’ meeting with the DMP authorities, taking away of two top leaders of the party has manifested the government’s tough stance against BNP, which is desperate to reinforce its anti-government movement ahead of next general elections. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has warned of tough action against any anarchy in the name of anti-government movement. Talking to UNB, some BNP leaders expressed their fear that the government may arrest more senior party leaders to halt the planned rally on Saturday. On Thursday, a Dhaka court sent 445 BNP leaders and activists to jail in two cases filed over Wednesday’s violence. Party’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, Dhaka south city unit convener Abdus Salam and Publication Secretary Shahiduddin Chowdhury Annie were among the top leaders who were sent to jail, pending further legal procedures.

Buet student Fardin Noor Parash murder case has been transferred to the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). “Now, DB police will investigate the case,” Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rampura Police Station, told UNB on Thursday. Fardin was a 3rd year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj's Fatullah. Read more: Buet student Fardin’s last tracked location was in Gazipur: Home Minister Earlier in the day, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed the case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death with Rampura Police Station. Bushra was placed on a on a five- day remand today (Thursday) after being arrested from her Banasree home in Dhaka. Read more: Fardin’s death: Friend Bushra put on 5-day remand Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing. On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested four members of an inter-district bandit gang, including Master Aslam, from Mirpur embankment under Shah Ali Police Station in the capital on Saturday night. The detectives also recovered one Hayes microbus, one foreign made pistol, two sharp weapons, two sticks and three looted private cars from their possession. Also read: 44 mugging, dope gang members held in Dhaka: Rab The arrestees were identified as Master of the gang Md. Aslamul Haque alias Aslam, Maqbool Hossain Prakash alias Mangal Hossain Babu, Md. Rafiqul Islam and Md. Hasan Hawlader. Briefing reporters at the  DMP Media Center on Sunday, Joint Commissioner (Cyber and Special Crimes and DB-North) of the DMP Mohammad Harun Aur Rashid said that Tejgaon Zonal team of DB (Tejgaon division) conducted a drive at Mirpur embankment and arrested the four bandits. They also recovered the Hayes microbus, one foreign made pistol, two sharp weapons, two sticks and three looted private cars from their possessions. About the tactics of the arrested bandits, Joint Commissioner Harun, who has been promoted to the rank of DIG, said they (bandits) basically give signal in front of the freight truck with laser lights. When the truck driver stopped the truck thinking it as a police signal, they fled with the truck, taking the driver and helper hostage at gunpoint, he said. During primary interrogation,  the arrested bandits also revealed that their group leader is the most wanted robber of the present time, Aslamul Haque alias Aslam. The other robbers in the group call him Master, he said.  Led by Aslam, they divided into different groups and carried out robberies in Chapainawabganj, Natore, Naogaon, Bogra, Sirajganj, Kushtia, Tangail, Jamalpur, Mymensingh, Manikganj, Dhaka, Narsingdi, Narayanganj, Shariatpur, Madaripur, Gopalganj, Faridpur and Joshore. Also read: Fake medicine gang busted by DB; 20 lakh pieces seized Later, they (bandits) left them in a secluded place on the way and resorted to looting paddy, rice, cows, fish food etc, which were carried by truck. The robbers then took the truck and robbed somewhere else. They also admitted that they had gathered at the embankment area on the day of the arrest to rob a moving truck.  Two separate cases have been filed with concerned police stations against the arrested under the Preparation for Robbery and Arms Act at DMP's Shahali Police Station

Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested two employees of a shop in Hazaribagh area in the city on Tuesday in connection with the clashes between students of Dhaka College and traders and hawkers of New Market.  The arrestees were Md. Kawsar and Md. Babu Hossain. Also read: New Market Clashes: Three more remanded Based on secret information, Dhanmondi zonal team of the DB (Ramna Division) carried out drives in Hazaribagh area and arrested them. Md. Fazle Elahi, Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) of DB (Ramna Division), said Bappi, an employee of Welcome Fast Food, locked into an altercation with Kawser and Babu, two employees of Capital Fast Food, over keeping a table for iftar items on April 18.  Also read:New Market clashes: 5 Dhaka College students remanded in police custody At one stage, Bappi called some students of Dhaka College and beat employees of Capital fast food,  resulting in violent clashes between Dhaka College students and New Market shopkeepers, the ADC said. Earlier, nine people were arrested in connection with the clashes.

A court here on Monday placed four accused in a case over the killing of Cumilla ward councillor Syed Mohammad Sohel and his aide on a 5-day remand each. Meanwhile the case was handed over to the Detective Branch (DB) of police from the Kotwali police station for further investigation on Sunday. Read: Cumilla councillor's murder: Prime accused killed in ‘gunfight’ Cumilla senior judicial magistrate court judge Chandan Kanti Nath passed the order after the investigation officer of the case sought a 7-day remand to interrogate the accused. Those remanded are Md Ashikur Rahman Rocky, Md Alam Mia, Jishan Mia and Masum, said M Tanvir Ahmed, additional superintendent of police. Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members and police have so far arrested five accused and two more suspects in the double murder case. Meanwhile, prime accused Shah Alam, Sabbir Hossain, Sajon Mia were killed in alleged gunfights with police.   Read: Cumilla councillor killing: Two accused killed in 'gunfight' with cops On November 22, Sohel, Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) councillor of Ward-17, and one of his aides were killed, while four others sustained injuries when gunmen opened fire in his office in Pathuariapara. Based on his younger brother Syed Rumon's complaint, as many as 21 people, some 10 of them unidentified, were booked by the Kotwali police for the double murder.

Actress Shamsunnahar Smrity alias Pori Moni might be produced before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court (CMM), Dhaka on Tuesday afternoon, upon completion of her 4-day remand in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act. Pori Moni is scheduled to be taken to the court at 12:00 pm and be produced before it at 3 pm, sources within law enforcement agencies and the CMM court told UNB. Read: Probe committee to investigate Saklain-Pori 'affair' She might be produced before the court in the afternoon, said Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Zafar Hossain. Film actress Pori Moni, whose allegation of rape attempt on her by businessman Nasir U Mahmud and others prompted firestorm in social media barely two months back, was detained from her home on August 4. Read:Pori Moni ‘affair’: Now police officer Sakline faces the music A case was then filed against the actress under the Narcotics Control Act the following day. Later, a Dhaka Court placed her on a 4-day remand in the case. Read: Pori Moni placed on 4-day remand The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the police has been tasked with investigating the charges brought against her. They took over the case from the Detective Branch (DB) of the police and were carrying out the investigation.

Three more persons, including a former MP, have been arrested in connection with the sensational Sahinuddin murder case, police said on Thursday. Sleuths of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) raided a number of places in the capital and Bhairab upazila of Kishorgonj district and nabbed the trio in the early hours of the day. The accused have been identified as Md Sumon Bepari (33), Md Rocky Talukder (25), and MA Awal, former MP of Laxmipur-1 constituency.  Sources at the RAB headquarters said that sleuths of the elite force conducted raids in Bhairab upazila late on Wednesday night, following a tip-off, and arrested the former MP in the early hours of Thursday. He is the prime accused in the case. Similarly, the zonal team of DB (Mirpur) conducted raids at several places in the capital’s Pallabi and Rayerbagh areas and arrested Sumon and Rocky around the same time. DMP’s Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Media) Iftakhairul Islam said that Sumon had plotted the murder and led the team of assailants. "His quick interrogation led to the immediate arrest of Rocky in the Kalapani area of Pallabi," he said. Two other accused in the case -- Murad and Dipu -- were arrested earlier. While the Pallabi police nabbed Murad soon after the crime on May 16, Dipu was held a day after. On May 16, the accused called up Sahinuddin on his mobile phone and asked him to come to Mirpur Section-12 on the pretext of resolving a land dispute. When the victim reached the area around 4pm that day, the assailants attacked him before hacking him to death with sharp weapons in front of his seven-year-old son. A murder case was filed at Pallabi Police Station on May 17 against several people, including MA Awal, Sumon and Rocky.    

Two suspected muggers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) near Kuril Flyover of Khilkhet  area in the capital early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Enamul, 30, and Md Rasel, 28. Tipped off, several teams of DB (Gulshan Division) took position in different areas near Kuril Flyover. When a DB team gave signal a CNG-run auto-rickshaw to stop it fled the place quickly ignoring the signal. Later another DB team put up a barricade on the Kuril flyover using a microbus to stop the auto-rickshaw, said Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Gulshan division Mashiur Rahman. Read:Auto-rickshaw driver ‘killed by muggers’ in Gazipur Suddenly, two  muggers got down from the CNG-auto rickshaw and opened fire targeting the law enforcers, he said. The detectives also fired back in self defence, leading to a gunfight, the DC (DB-Gulshan division) said. After the gunfight, the detectives arrested two suspected muggers identified as Natyun and Yamin. Two injured muggers- Enamul and Rasel- were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead. Officer-in-charge of Khilkhet Police Station Sabbir Ahmed said three separate cases—one under arms act, another under Narcotics Act and another for assaulting police, were filed with  Khilkhet police station.  

One of the accused in Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader Rakib Hossain murder case was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Amanullahpur village in Begumganj upazila on early Tuesday.

Detective Branch(DB)  of Dhaka Metropolitan Police(DMP) rescued two abducted students and arrested eight alleged members of the kidnapping syndicate from various areas of the city on Saturday night.