A schoolboy was beaten to death allegedly by a man and his son at Old Ferry Ghat Balu Point of Hossainpur in Sirajganj town on Friday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Md Ashiq Hossain, 15, a 10th-grade student and son of Dulal Hossain of the Hossainpur. Sirajganj Sadar Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Humayun Kabir said Ashiq went to bathe at a water pump owned by Al-Amin around 4pm on Friday. Al-Amin and his son Rifat, 15, of Hossainpur Bou Bazar area, reportedly forbade him from doing so, triggering an altercation. At one point, Ashiq was struck in the neck with a bamboo stick that him dead on the spot. Couple drowns as boat sinks in Pabna Following the incident, Al Amin and his son fled the area. Upon receiving information, police recovered Ashiq’s body from the scene in the evening and sent it to Shaheed M Monsur Ali Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The body was handed over to the family after the post-mortem on Saturday morning. The process of filing a case over the incident is underway, the OC added.

An accused, who reportedly  killed a fish trader, was beaten to death by locals at Bagmara upazila of Rajshahi district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Aminul Islam, 31, of Atrai upazila in Naogaon district. Touhidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Bagmara Police Station, said Aminul stabbed Abdur Razzak, 33, a fish trader, to death over previous enmity at Ranshibazar while he was having tea at a tea stall around 5:30 pm. 40-year-old man killed over land dispute in Rajshahi Being chased by the local people, Aminul ran away and took shelter at a house around 7:30 pm. At one stage, locals caught Aminul, breaking open the door of the house and beat him mercilessly, leaving him dead on the spot. Two policemen, including sub-inspector Sadiqul Islam, were injured when they tried to resist the locals from entering the house.

A Dhaka tribunal on Tuesday sentenced three people to death over the gang rape and murder of a teenage girl in Keraniganj three years ago.Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-4 Judge Munshi Md. Mashiur Rahman pronounced the verdict in the morning. One sentenced to death for raping 7-year-old in Khilgaon The convicts are Md. Sajib, Md. Rakib, and Shaon (also known as Valka Shaon).The court also sentenced them to seven years of imprisonment with a fine of Tk 10,000 each for their involvement in disposing of the victim’s body. Failure to pay the fine would result in an additional year of imprisonment.Public Prosecutor Ershad Alam said the court directed the Dhaka District Magistrate to seize the convicts' assets to realise the fine.The court acquitted Ali Akbar and Md. Riaz due to a lack of sufficient evidence against them. Rakib and Shaon were present in the court while Sajib was tried in absentia.On June 11, 2022, police recovered the victim’s body from a pond near the West Bamnansur Jame Mosque in Keraniganj. Man sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in Munshiganj Investigations found that the victim had been gang-raped and strangled before her body was disposed of. Shaon, Rakib, and Sajib confessed to their involvement in the crime.

Police recovered the body of a four-year-old child from a cornfield in Inuya village of Syedpur Union under Pirganj upazila in Thakurgaon on Thursday.  The deceased, Siam, was the son of Mohammad Ali, a resident of the area.  Abdul Halim, a sub-inspector at Pirganj Police Station, said that Siam’s 15-year-old stepbrother, Lais, had been detained in connection with the incident. During the initial interrogation, Lais admitted to his involvement in the crime. He claimed that his stepmother had neglected him and often deprived him of basic needs, which led to his anger. 88-year-old woman dies in Faridpur fire Enraged by this, he took Siam to the cornfield and strangled him to death. According to locals, the child had gone missing earlier. When they questioned Lais, he provided details that ultimately led to the discovery of the body in a cornfield near their house. SI Halim said that they are investigating the incident.

A 22-year-old woman and her sister were killed allegedly by her husband at Kasba in Brahmanbaria district early Monday. The deceased were identified as Juthi Akter, wife of Samiul Islam and her sister Smriti Akter, 12. Both of them were daughters of Roushan Ali of Dhajanagar village in the upazila. Quoting family members, Abul Quader, officer-in-charge of Kasba Police Station, said that Samiul, son of Zakir Hossain of Brahmanpara upazila in Cumilla district, married Juthi  one and a half years ago. Juthi along with her sister and brother Zahid Hossain used to live there as her mother is in jail in a case. Juthi came to her father’s house one month ago due to a family feud with Samiul. 618 arrested in Operation Devil Hunt across country Samiul went to his in-laws' house last week. On Sunday night, Samiul and his brother-in-law Zahid went to bed after having dinner. At the dead of night, Zahid woke up and found Samiul missing. Later, he went to the house of his sisters and found them unconscious. Hearing screams of Zahid, local people found the two sisters dead. On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Sadar hospital morgue for autopsy. Police suspected that Samiul might have strangulated the two sisters dead using a pillow.  

The body of a minor girl killed after a failed attempted rape allegedly by an ice cream seller, was recovered from a pond early Friday three days after she went missing in Munshinganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila. Police arrested accused Sabbir, 24, who gave a confessional statement to a court in this regard on Thursday, said Sirajdikhan police station’s Officer-in-Charge Sahed Al Mamun. The victim Fatema Akter was daughter of Kuwait expatriate Shahidul Islam and a class-I student of a local madrasa. Police and locals said Fatema went to a waz mahfil (religious event) near their home with her maternal aunt on Tuesday evening. The aunt left the victim behind to her (Fatema) brother Ismail there and returned to the home alone, they said. Four held over woman's ‘gang rape’ in Faridpur At one stage, Fatema went missing amid the huge crowd and went to accused Sabbir, who had been selling ice-cream there, while roaming randomly, according to them. On the pretext of offering an ice-cream, Sabbir tried to rape her after taking to a remote place but failed due to her screams, they said. The accused strangled her to death and dumped the body into the pond filled with water hyacinth. Upon suspicion, locals detained Sabbir and handed him over to the police on Thursday night while police produced him before a Munshiganj court with a prayer for remand on Wednesday. The court granted two-remand for him on Wednesday morning, the OC said, adding that during interrogation the accused gave a confessional statement. Later, police recovered the body from the water body late Thursday with the accused, he said. On Wednesday morning, the victim’s mother filed a case accusing Sabbir of the killinh with the police station, added the OC. 2 siblings with disabilities raped in Dhaka’s Jatrabari As involvement of Sabbir in the murder spread, locals on Friday morning ransacked his house and set fire to it.

A 20-year-old man’s body has been recovered from the Buriganga River after being missing for four days. The deceased was identified as Arman, a resident of Sunibir Housing in the Adabor area. Bosila River police recovered the body on Monday night in a floating state, said Keraniganj Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sohorab Al Hasan on Tuesday. Unidentified body recovered from Meghna River in Chandpur Arman had been reported missing since Thursday. Despite extensive searches, his whereabouts remained unknown until the discovery of his body by Basilla River Police. He (Arman) worked for a private courier service company in Dhaka, the OC said. Following the discovery, Arman’s family identified the body at the Bosilla Police Station. The indicated signs of head injuries suggested that he had been murdered, said police. Madrasa teacher’s throat-slit body recovered in Manikganj A murder case was filed at the Adabor Police Station, and investigations are ongoing. The body was sent to Mitford Hospital for autopsy, added the OC.

A Naogaon court has convicted five people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for killing a man in Mahadebpur upazila of Naogaon district in 2007.Naogaon Additional District and Session Judge Ferdous Wahid handed down the punishment on Thursday.The lifers were—Shahidul Islam, 50, son of Tasir Uddin, Abdus Salam, 60, Abul Kalam Azad, 55, Ashraf, 45, son of Abdus Samad, Ibrahim Hossain, 60, son of Subid Ali. Violence at Ctg court: 79 people more suedThe court also fined Tk 50,000 each, in default, to suffer six months more in rigorous imprisonment.The court also acquitted 11 people as allegations brought against them could not be proved.According to the prosecution, Fazlur Rahman, son of Yunus Ali of Raiga village in Mahadebpur upazila was beaten to death by the convicts over land dispute on April 24, 2007. Court orders to confiscate properties held abroad by Bashundhara Group chairman, 7 family membersShahnaz Begum, wife of Fazlur filed the case with Mahadebpur Police Station.Police submitted chargesheet against 19 people. Among them, three people died during the trial proceedings.

A 21-year-old youth has been stabbed to death allegedly by a union-level Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal(JCD) leader over  previous enmity in Taltali upazila of Barguna. The deceased was identified as Arafat Khan, son of local Sharikkhali union parishad’s current member Faruk Khan of Badurgachha village. He used to work as a rider of rented motorbike. Police and locals said there was a longstanding dispute between Arafat and accused Arafat Shikdar, member secretary of the union unit of the BNP’s student wing Chhatra Dal. The JCD leader and his associates  attacked Arafat when he was sitting in front of a pesticide shop at local Kachupatra Bazar around 9pm on Saturday, leaving him critically injured. Local BNP leader’s body recovered in Jashore Locals took him to nearby Amtali Upazila Health Complex where physicians declared him dead upon arrival. Taltali police station’s Officer-in-Charge Md Shahjalal said the previous enmity might have led to the killing and efforts are underway to arrest those involved in it.

A trader was shot dead and several others were injured in an attack by miscreants in Noapara, Raojan upazila of Chattogram on Friday. The deceased, identified as Jahangir Alam, was a dried fish trader based in Asadganj, Chattogram city. He was the son of former union parishad member Abu Syed. According to Officer-in-Charge (OC) AKM Shafiqul Alam Chowdhury of Raojan Police Station, Jahangir was ambushed while heading to the mosque to offer the Jummah prayer. Beximco workers' protest foiled amid tight surveillance in Gazipur Eyewitnesses said the assailants first attacked Jahangir with sticks, knocking him to the ground, before opening fire on him. When worshippers at the mosque tried to intervene, some were injured by the attackers. The motive behind the murder is yet to be determined, the OC added.