Law-&-Order
Woman stabbed dead over land dispute in Dinajpur
A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her rivals in Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district over land dispute on Saturday morning.
The deceased was identified as Amena Begum, wife of Sekendar Ali, a resident of Baro Paikerghar village in Ghoraghat Upazila.
Locals said when Amena’s rivals went to cultivate a disputed land she obstructed them leading to an altercation.
At one stage, they stabbed her with a sharp weapon, leaving her dead on the spot.
Abdul Wahab, Duty Officer and Sub-Inspector of Ghoraghat Police Station, said police reached the spot and necessary actions will be taken.
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However, this is the 3rd murder incident in Ghoraghat Upazila in a span of 10 days over ownership of land.
On January 25, two people were killed and four were injured in a clash between two groups over land dispute in the upazila.
Mugger stabs CHT Affairs Minister's APS in Dhaka city
Assistant Personal Secretary (APS) to Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing sustained injuries in an attack by a mugger in the capital’s Karwan Bazar on Thursday night.
APS Sadek Hossain Chowdhury has been undergoing treatment at the capital's Square Hospital, according to the ministry’s press release signed by Public Relations Officer (CHT division) Rejwan Khan.
The official was returning to his Framgate residence by a private car after completing official work at the residence of the minister on Bailey Road.
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Sadek was talking over his mobile phone by keeping the window of his vehicle open in the Karwan Bazar area.
As the vehicle slowed due to a traffic gridlock in SAARC Fountain around 11pm, the snatcher stabbed him with a sharp weapon after being resisted by Sadek, leaving him injured.
He was rushed to the hospital where he has been receiving treatment, the release added.
Khulna 8th-grader found hanging in classroom day after he was reported missing
An eighth-grade boy was found hanging from the fan of his classroom in Khulna's Dumuria upazila early Friday, the day after he was reported missing, police said.
Six people were detained in connection with the incident.
Nirob Mandal, 14, from Gutudiya village of the upazila, was a student of Gutudiya Secondary High School.
Locals and police said Nirob did not return home after attending school Thursday morning.
Family members looked for him everywhere but could not find any trace of him.
An anonymous person called Nirob's father Shekhar Mandal over the phone and demanded Tk30 lakh as ransom in the afternoon, they said.
After that, Shekhar Mandal lodged a general diary at the police station.
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Sheikh Kony Miah, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dumuria Police Station, said on information they found the body hanging inside a classroom around 1am. However, he did not say how they were tipped off to the classroom.
"It was assumed that Nirob's body was hung from the ceiling fan after he was strangled to death. The body was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital for autopsy," the OC added.
Suspected of theft, 2 construction workers beaten to death in Rajshahi 4 held
On suspicion of theft of Tk10 lakh, two construction workers were beaten to death at an under-construction building in the Rajshahi city's Safura BSCIC area Thursday night, police said.
The law enforcers detained four people over the incident. They also recovered videos from the accused which show them beating the workers up.
Rezaul Karim, 45, from Naogaon's Manda and Rakibul Islam, 35, from Chapainawabganj's Shibganj were tied to a pole and beaten up from noon to 8pm at night.
Mazharul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Boalia Police Station, said Rezaul and Rakibul had been working at the building of Modern Food Factory owner Mohammad Abdullah in front of Bishal Biscuit Factory for the past few days.
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On suspicion of theft of Tk10 lakh from the food factory owner's home yesterday, Abdullah, his brother-in-law Moin Uddin Real, father-in-law Masum Reza and factory Manager Imran tied up the workers and beat them up with iron rods and sticks to extract a confession.
On information, police rushed to the spot and rescued the workers, both in critical condition.They were taken to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) where Rezaul was declared dead at 8:30pm, the OC said. "Rakibul succumbed to his injuries around 9.30pm while undergoing treatment."
The bodies were kept at the RMCH morgue for autopsies and will be handed over to the families after the completion of legal procedures, he said.
So far, no case has been lodged at the police station over the incident, he added.
Police press charges against cricketer Al-Amin for torturing wife, demanding dowry
Police Thursday pressed charges against cricketer Al-Amin Hossain for torturing his wife Ishrat Jahan and demanding dowry.
Inspector Md Sohel Rana of Mirpur Model Police Station, also the investigation officer of the case, submitted the charge sheet to Dhaka's Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court.
According to the charge sheet, the charges brought against the cricketer were primarily proved.
Also, the court ordered the transfer of the case to the Dhaka Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-8 for the next steps.
On September 2, police filed a case against Al-Amin a day after Ishrat filed a complaint at Mirpur Model Police Station accusing him of torturing and physically abusing her for a dowry of Tk20 lakh.
On September 6 last year, the High Court granted an eight-week anticipatory bail to Al-Amin after he surrendered before it.
According to the case statement, Ishrat and Al-Amin got married on December 26, 2012, and they have two children.
Read more: Cricketer Al-Amin gets permanent bail
Barred from Ekushey Book Fair 2023, Adarsha goes to High Court
Md Mahabubur Rahman, the publisher of Adarsha Prakashani, Thursday challenged the Bangla Academy's decision to deny him a stall at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2023 in a writ filed at the High Court.
Four people, including the director general of the Bangla Academy, were made defendants in the writ, the petitioner's lawyer Aneek R Haque said. "The hearing on the writ petition is likely to be held next week."
The petitioner sought the court's instruction to allot stalls to the publishing house as soon as possible.
The Bangla Academy, the governing body of the fair, published the allocation list on January 12, where Adarsha's name was dropped.
Later, Adarsha learned about objections towards the book "Bangaleer Mediocrityr Sondhane" by Faham Abdus Salam, son-in-law of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
According to the writ, the reason the authorities did not allow the publishing house from attending the fair was a book that is not banned or blacklisted. "So, the decision is invalid as per the Bangla Academy Act 2013. Also, it is against freedom of speech."
With virus-era norms like social distancing now discarded, this year's fair returned to its usual start date of February 1, and barring some unforeseen pandemic-level event, will last the entire month at the Bangla Academy's sprawling premises, along with the adjacent Suhrawardy Udyan in the capital.
Nine hundred and one units were allocated to 601 organisations for this year's fair, compared to 776 units to 534 organisations last year.
Read more: PM opens Ekushey Book Fair 2023 in person for first time in 3 years
Japanese younger daughter to stay with father, mother every alternate day
A Dhaka court on Thursday passed an order to keep younger daughter Nakano Laila Lina to her Bangladesh-born US citizen father Imran Sharif and Japanese mother every alternate day until the case is disposed of.
The elder daughter Nakano Jasmine Malika, however, will remain in custody of Japanese mother Nakano Eriko as per the earlier order of the family court.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mamunur Rashid passed the order after hearing a petition at the court where the mother, father and their daughters were present, said Sub-inspector Mamun Miah, a general recording officer of the Chief Metropolitan Court (CMM).
The court set February 16 for the next hearing of the case at the family court. Arguments from both sides ended on January 22.
A family court on January 29 ordered the two children to stay with their mother.
Durdana Rahman, judge of Dhaka's Second Additional Assistant Judge and Family Court, passed the order.
Later, Imran Sharif filed a petition at the metropolitan court against the judgment of Dhaka's Second Additional Assistant Judge and Family Court.
War crimes: Death-row convict Majid arrested in Madaripur
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested a war criminal and death-row convict Abdul Majid from Madaripur around four years after he was awarded capital punishment in 2019.
The 80-year-old Majid is the son of Miraj Ali of Purba Moudam village under Purbadhala police station in Netrokona, said a press release signed by Farzana Hoque, senior assistant superintendent of police (media) of Rab, on Thursday.
The fugitive convict went into hiding in 2015 when a case involving the 1971 war crimes was filed against four people including him with the International Crimes Tribunal in 2014.
He faced charges of killing, mass killing, abduction, torture, torching, rape and looting in the case.
Majid, who was the head of Razakar Bahini in Purbadhala. As a membe of the auxiliary force of the occupied Pakistani military, in collaboration with his cohort, he killed freedom fighter Abdul Khaleq and his associates at the house of Khaleq at Badha village under the Purbadhala police station on August 17, 1971.
Later, their bodies were dumped into several rivers.
Though initially four people were indicted in the case later three more people were also accused in the case.
Read more: 6 sentenced to death for war crimes in Mymensingh
The International Crimes Tribunal handed down the death sentence to all the seven accused after completing all legal procedures in 2019.
With the 36th judgment in the case, two convicts died when the case was behind bars, two died as fugitives after the judgment was passed and the other two are still at large.
Goods worth Tk131 crore seized in January: BGB
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Thursday said they seized goods, arms, and drugs worth Tk130.63 crore in January.
The seized items include 523,268 yaba pills, 3.169kg crystal meth, 14,617 bottles of Phensedyl, 22,728 bottles of foreign liquor, 133 litres of local liquor, 5,229 cans of beer, 2,501kg hemp, 8.832kg heroin, 19,289 stimulant injections, 10,947 Eskuf syrups, and 905 bottles of MkDil/Cofidil, Shariful Islam, public relations officer of the BGB headquarters, said.
Also, 31.628kg gold, 6.061kg silver, 162,109 cosmetics, 22,510 imitation jewellery, 10,789 sarees, 5,763 three-piece sets, blankets and shirt pieces; 2,712 pieces of readymade garments, 3,386 cubic feet of timber, 3,942kg Indian tea, 86,714kg coal, 1,074kg pesticide, two touchstone idols, 79 motorcycles, seven cars, 13 pickup vans, 20 CNG and battery-run auto-rickshaws were also seized.
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The seized arms include two pistols, 22 guns, 130 rounds of ammunition, one mortar shell and 60mm mortar ammunition.
Also, legal action was taken against 198 smugglers, 52 Bangladesh nationals as well as seven Indian nationals for illegally crossing the border, Shariful said.
Brahmanbaria-2 by-polls: Missing independent candidate Asif traced in Dhaka
Missing independent candidate in the by-polls to Brahmanbaria-2 Abu Asif Ahmed was traced in the city’s Bashundhara area five days after he went missing from his electoral area, police said on Thursday.
Mohammad Shakawat Hossian, superintendent of police (SP) in the district, said they came to know about his whereabouts when they contacted victim’s wife Meherunnesa for their investigation over his disappearance on Thursday.
“He (Asif) will be brought back from the capital and interrogated about his disappearance,” he said.
Asif, who was expelled from the BNP for contesting in the election, went missing on January 27 after he had come out of his house for campaign.
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Later, his wife lodged a GD at the local police station in this connection while an application was also sent to the Chief Election Commissioner to find her missing husband on January 31.
Asif is the former president of Ashuganj Upazila unit BNP and the former chairman of Upazila Parishad. In the Brahmanbaria-2 by-poll, he was the main opponent of the expelled leader of BNP and five-time Member of Parliament, Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan.