United News of Bangladesh

A Cox’s Bazar court on Wednesday sentenced four people to death and nine others to life imprisonment for killing an army officer during a drive by joint force in Dulahazara area of Chakaria upazila in 2024. The condemned convicts are Helal Uddin, Nasir Uddin, Morshed Alam and Nurul Amin. The lifers are Jalal Uddin, Anwar Hakim, Arif Ullah, Ziabul Karim, Ismail Hossain, Enamul Haque, Mohamamd Enam, Md Kamal and Abdul Karim. Cox’s Bazar Additional District and Sessions Judge Mohammad Abul MansurSiddique handed down the punishment. Security was tightened in and around the court premises with additional police and other law enforcement personnel deployed during the announcement of the judgment. Following the verdict, the convicts were escorted out of the courtroom one by one, placed in prison vans and sent to jail under strict security. According to the prosecution, Lieutenant Tanjim Sarwar Nirjan, 23, was killed by miscreants during a joint forces operation in Dulahazara area of Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar district on September 24, 2024. A case was filed against 18 people in this connection. After examining the records and witnesses, the court acquitted five othersas allegations brought against them could not be proved.  

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on Sunday demanded the formation of an impartial commission to look into the murder incident of retired army major Sinha Md Rashed on Marine Drive Road in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf.