Murder
Islamic Foundation employee strangled to death in Ctg, wife detained
An employee of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh was strangulated to death allegedly by her wife in Najirpara area of Chattogram city early Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Abdul Mannan, 55, model caretaker of Fatikchhari upazila unit of Islamic Foundation and a resident Buripukur par area under the upazila.
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Nazim Uddin Majumdar, officer-in-charge of Panchlaish police station, said wife Khodeza Begum along with their children strangled Mannan to death over a family feud at their house in the Nazjipara area around 2am.
“We have detained his wife who preliminary confessed to the killing,”the OC said.
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A case will be filed in connection with the murder, the police officer added.
Naogaon: 10, including 5 brothers, get life in prison for 2013 murder
A Naogaon court on Wednesday sentenced 10 people, including five brothers, to life imprisonment for the 2013 murder of a farmer over the ownership of a deep tube well in Badalgachhi upazila.
Judge Ferdous Wahid of Naogaon Additional District and Sessions Judge Court-2 gave the order during a hearing in the presence of the accused. He also fined them Tk20,000 each, in default of which they will have to serve two more years in jail, state lawyer Md Abdu Baki said.
The court, however, cleared three people of charges as they were not proven guilty, he added.
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The lifers are Kamruzzaman, his brothers Wahed Ali, Shamsuzzaman, Rocket and Dablu; Abdul Hamid and his brother Enamul Hoque; Mosharraf Hossain, Bajlur Rahman and Emdadul Hoque from the village Durgapur.
Bajlur's wife Karima Begum, Enamul's wife Joly Akter and Md Jibon Ahmed of the same village were cleared of charges.
According to the case statement, two groups of villagers had been at loggerheads over the ownership of the deep tube well in Durgapur. A group of armed men led by Kamruzzaman swooped on farmer Ujjal Hossain and three others over it, leaving them critically injured, on May 9, 2013.
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Ujjal succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital four days later.
On the following day, the village's Deep Tube Well Association General Secretary Majharul Islam filed a murder case accusing 13 people at Badalgachhi Police Station.
Two militants convicted to death in Dipan murder case flee Dhaka court lock-up
Two members of the banned militant group Ansar al-Islam, who were sentenced to death in Jagriti Publications publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan murder case, escaped from the lock-up of Dhaka court on Sunday (November 20, 2022).
The escapees are Md Abu Siddique Sohel alias Sakib alias Sajid alias Shahab and Moinul Hasan Shamim alias Samir alias Sifat alias Imran, said Harun or-Rashid, Chief of Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).
“The convicts sprayed something in the eyes of two policemen and escaped while they were being taken to the court. We’re searching for them in the nearby areas. This is the first time something like this has happened in the country,” said Harun.
Read: Eight militants sentenced to death in Dipan murder case
Publisher Dipan, son of Prof Abul Kashem Fazlul Huq of Dhaka University, was hacked to death in his office on the second floor of Aziz Supermarket at Shahbagh in Dhaka on October 31, 2015.
A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station the following day and later the case was transferred to Detective Branch.
Police on November 15, 2019, pressed charges against the eight Ansar al-Islam men in the case.
On February 10, 2021, Dhaka Anti-Terrorism Tribunal sentenced eight militants to death.
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The six other death-row convicts in the case are Md Abdus Sabur alias Abdus Samad alias Sujan alias Raju alias Saad, Khairul Islam alias Jamil alias Rifat alias Fahim alias Jisan, Mozammel Hossain alias Saimon alias Shahriar, Md Sheikh Abdullah alias Jubayer alias Jayed alias Javed, Syed Ziaul Hoque, a suspended major of Bangladesh Army who is known as Sagar alias Borobhai, and Akram Hossain alias Hasib alias Abir alias Adnan alias Abdullah.
Among the convicts, Sayed Ziaul Hoque and Akram Hossain have been absconding since the killing of Faisal Arefin Dipan.
Bagerhat Swechchasebak Dal general secretary shot dead
The general secretary of the Bagerhat unit of Swechchasebak Dal, the BNP volunteers' wing, was shot dead by unidentified assailants Friday, police said.
Tanu Bhuiyan, 25, was from the Bashabati area of Bagerhat town.
"The Swechchasebak Dal leader was gunned down near his house around 9:30pm. The unidentified men, who shot him multiple times, ran away," KM Azizul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bagerhat Model Police Station, said.
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Tanu was declared dead after he was rushed to Bagerhat Sheikh Razia Naser General Hospital.
"Police are working to find out the reason behind the murder and arrest the killers. We are assuming that someone assassinated him to settle an old score," the OC said.
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UP chairman, 5 others get life term for murder in Kushtia
A Kushtia court on Thursday sentenced six people including a Union Parishad (UP) chairman and his son to life term imprisonment for killing a man around seven years back.
Kusthia Additional District and Sessions Judge-1 Md Tajul Islam also fined the convicts Tk 20,000 each, in default of which they will have to serve one more in jail, said Anup Kumar Nandy, public prosecutor of the court.
Besides, the court also acquitted 15 people as the allegations brought against them could not be proved.
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The convicts are Sadar upazila’s Alampur UP chairman and former general secretary of the Sadar upazila unit Awami League Akharuzzaman Biswas, 52, his son Mahmudul Hasan, 30, his brothers Habil Uddin Biswas, 49 and Babul Biswas, 46, Rashedul Islam Biddyut, 34 and Masud Gayen, 38.
Of them, Rashedul and Masud were tried in absentia.
According to the case statement, the convicts stabbed rival group activist Molla Masud Karim to death centering the UP polls in Dahkula village under the Sadar upazila on April 28, 2016.
On the following day, victim’s brother Mahbubul Karim Molla filed a murder case.
Police pressed chargesheet against the accused on January 4, 2017.
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The court handed down the judgment after completing all procedures in the case, the PP added.
'He was murdered': Fardin's father demands justice
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash was murdered, claimed his father Nuruddin Rana on Tuesday, demanding justice for his son.
"I may not get my son back, but I want justice. It is now easy to find out the culprits and killers by tracking his mobile phone location," he said after Fardin’s namaz-e-janaza at Buet Central Mosque this noon.
"My son was very decent and soft hearted. He was very friendly. I do not know the reason why he has been killed in such a brutal way. He was closely involved in extra-curricular activities like debating and social works," he added.
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Fardin was a 3rd year student of Buet’s civil engineering department and a resident of Qutubpur area in Narayanganj's Fatullah.
The human chain, under the banner of general students, was formed in front of Buet Shaheed Minar after his namaz-e-janaza. His body was brought to Buet campus after an autopsy this morning.
The students also demanded immediate arrest of those behind Fardin’s death after identifying them.
On November 4, Fardin left for the campus from his home after the Juma prayer as he had a quiz the following day, but he did not attend the quiz.
"When Fardin's friends informed us that he didn’t attend the quiz, we informed the police station and lodged a complaint that day," Nuruddin said.
Read more: Injury marks on head, body of Buet student Fardin: Doctor who conducted autopsy
On Monday, police recovered Fardin's body from the Shitalakhkhya river behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, three days after he went missing.
"When he set out for the campus from home, he took his mobile, watch and money bag. But we found nothing of those with the body,” said the father.
Earlier today, 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.
Nephew confesses to killing Kushtia schoolteacher, say police
A nephew of slain Kushtia Zilla School teacher Rokshana Khanam confessed to his involvement in the killing of his aunt, said Khairul Alam, superintendent of Kushtia police.
Detectives arrested Nawroz Kabir Nishat, 20, son of late AKM Nur-e-Aslam and a nephew of Rokshana, on Monday night after Rokshana’s husband Mostafizur Rahman filed a murder case against some unidentified people with Kushtia police station.
Nawroz told police that he along with his brother and mother live on the fourth floor of the six-story building owned by Rokshana, said Khairul Alam.
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Roksana gave them shelter at her flat as she had no children. She used to scold him over online gambling and she scolded him on Sunday night over the same issue, he said.
Nawroz tactfully took a position in Rokshana’s bedroom and hit her on the head with a heavy stone while she was sleeping, the police official said.
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Later, he fled after breaking open the grill of the veranda, he added.
The investigation officer of the case SI Zahurul Islam of Kushtia Model Police Station said that they will produce Nawroz before a court in Kushtia on Tuesday.
Police recovered the body of Kushtia Zilla School’s senior English teacher from her apartment in the Housing D-Block area on Monday morning.
13 fugitives arrested in Benapole
Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested thirteen fugitives wanted in drugs, arms and murder cases in Benapole.However, police didn't disclose the identities of the arrestees.Acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted simultaneous drives in different areas of Benapole Port area all day on Saturday and arrested them, said Kamal Hossain Bhuiyan, OC of Benapole Port Police Station.
Read: 54 arrested at Benapole borderThe arrestees were produced before the court in Jashore under police protection, added the OC.
Man stabs mother-in-law to death in Faridpur
A 55-year-old woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her son-in-law in Sabar village of Faridpur district early on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Rahima Begum of the village.
Habil Hossain, officer-in-charge of Nagarkanda Police Station, said that Rahima stepped out of her house to answer the call of nature around 1am. "It was then that Yunus Molla, her son-in-law, stabbed her with a knife, leaving her critically injured."
Later, she was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared Rahima dead on arrival.
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The motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained, the OC said. "Efforts are on to nab the accused, who is on the run."
“The body has been kept at the morgue of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College and Hospital," he added.
Man stabbed dead ‘by wife’ in Kushtia
A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death allegedly by his wife following a family feud in Kushtia town early Monday.
The deceased was identified as Md Sabbir, a resident of the town.
At one stage of altercation, Sabbir’s second wife Rozina Khatun stabbed him at their home in Milpara area around 2am and fled the scene, said Delwar Hossain Khan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kushtia Model police station quoting witnesses.
He was rushed to Kushtia General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 7am.
Sabbir and Rozina got married a month ago, he added.
The body has been kept at the hospital morgue. And efforts are on to arrest Rozina, said the OC.